Hand-Carving a V Profile Neck
Added 2020-03-18 19:49:42 +0000 UTCHere's a quick time-lapse of how I am carving the backside of banjo necks these days.
On a side note, I do hope everyone is coping with the Corona virus situation. Where we live in the rural Southeast it's pretty quiet.
Comments
I feel the same way. Never actually used a router but there is NOTHING better than a bright, sharp chisel.
Clifton Hicks
2020-05-04 12:58:30 +0000 UTCThanks for sharing this, currently building a neck and using this approach, about halfway through the neck at this point and its been the most rewarding one yet, in the past I’ve always done the D shape or something close to it with either a router or just a rasp and file. There’s something very relaxing about working a piece of material slowly with a set of chisels and a file, can’t see myself going back to the router after this one.
Brandon Ellis
2020-05-03 11:28:02 +0000 UTCCool! Thanks for sharing that.
sean cline
2020-03-19 23:34:12 +0000 UTCgreat work .... especially to see how it can be done without too many machines (well none in fact)
Daniel Pearce
2020-03-18 23:34:39 +0000 UTCThat was great. thank you. Don't see the building with hand tools nearly enough. How long did that take? Like Kapel, I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.
David Smulders
2020-03-18 20:49:10 +0000 UTCWe're at the GA-NC-TN border so pretty quiet here as well. Nothing out of the ordinary besides all the shuttered businesses and no paper in the grocery store. People around here are accustomed to "holing up."
Clifton Hicks
2020-03-18 20:45:12 +0000 UTCGreat Job there Clifton!! Thank you for sharing that ! love the "V" shape and how you got to that point by cutting away piece by piece. Look forward to seein the finished neck. Hope you and your Family all stayin well and healthy with this virous going wround?. here in Virginia up in the Mountains it's pretty quiet oddly so a bit more than normal. Keep building those Banjo's and ya'all stay healthy. :>)
Kapel Coolac
2020-03-18 20:39:36 +0000 UTCVery boss
Cooper Felien
2020-03-18 20:27:33 +0000 UTCThanks Clifton, that was mesmerising. The time lapse and sound made me think of Jan Svankmajer animations. Also inspired me to try and make a replacement for the bent neck on an old Savana banjo I've acquired .
Tom Harrison
2020-03-18 20:24:25 +0000 UTC
