{"id":212,"date":"2016-03-04T15:43:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T15:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/?p=212"},"modified":"2016-03-04T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T15:43:19","slug":"disaster-narrowly-averted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/2016\/03\/04\/disaster-narrowly-averted\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster narrowly averted"},"content":{"rendered":"

If anything could keep me\u00a0up at night worrying about making a fiddle, it’s the possibility that there is something I’ve already screwed up and just don’t know it yet. Yesterday, I got a bit more fuel for that sort of worry.<\/p>\n

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As I was working on making the purfling platform, I noticed that the plate would rock a bit when I put pressure on the edge. I thought back about getting the wood for the top ready and realized that I’d never planed it flat.<\/p>\n

That could have been the mistake that ruined the plate. As I had now established the thickness of the edge, if I had to remove much wood off the bottom to flatten it, it could have ended up making the edges too thin. Fortunately, I was very generous with the edge thickness, and it was not too thin once I’d leveled the bottom. One bit of sloppy woodwork saves another!<\/p>\n

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This is not when you want to be flattening your top plate!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once that was done, I spent some time working with purfling on scrap wood. Here’s my first purfled wood<\/p>\n

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Exciting, I know. Now to start practicing corners (which is the real trick).<\/p>\n

I had to check the now flattened plate on the rib garland<\/p>\n

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