Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Ukulele Day07 Sound Hole

Last time, we glued top lining.
Today, we remove small spring clamp and the above photo show the result.

There is some small hole between lining and side. We'll fix it later.

Our top is 3mm thickness (the spec. is 1.5mm)
Our back is 2mm thickness (the spec. is 1.5mm)
Both boards, we'll sand it later.


We've printed out the hibiscus sound hole from internet.
We compare the size of sound hole with our soprano template.


The left photo is good. The right photo is too big.

We use template to draw a top outline, use washer to draw a spared area.


Make a photo copy on the top.

For the back, we prepare to glue the center line.
We use go bar to push the back with sphere template.

With steel ruler, we glue our center line on the back.

Below photo is our hand-made go bar.






Back to our top, we use hand drill to make a hole on each area.
We then use scroll saw.












Compared with original photo.



Look pretty!!

Then, we sand the bottom area of top. This is our sound board.

Sand it out until the thickness is at 1.6-1.9mm

Optionally, we use small block to help us.





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