1st fiddle by ROY D #6: bending the sides

Looks like your off to a great start, well except that little mishap with sides. I look froward to seeing how it all turns out. good luck!

-- Paul Sayre Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)

we all learn from destroying beautiful expensive wood !!!!
i hope my mistake will help the next person not make that same mistake i did

if i knew what i was doing …i would be done by now!!!!

-- tn hillbilly.." tryin to do the best i can with what i got "

The scroll and the pegbox looks very nice.
Didn’t you apply steam bending technique?
I hope to see the finished fiddle pretty soon!
Good luck!

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Looks like it’s coming along nicely. Keep us posted with your progress. It looks like a fun and challenging project!

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

i used a $2 steam iron !!! for my steam bending
i wet the wood about 20 seconds in the sink. the i wet a kitchen towel put the wood on it folded it over and ran the steam iron back and forth over the wood for about 1 minute then wraped it around the mold starting at the back, clamping it and then just pushed the sides around and put the extra pieces of scrap from where i cut out the mold and clamped it. let it sit over night.

i will build some better clamping pieces that cover the full width of the wood.
the figured maple split along the grain where it wasn’t covered on 1 side. the other side didn’t split

you don’t need a $150 bending iron to bend wood!!
i took it out of the mold this morning and it held it’s shape great!!

-- tn hillbilly.." tryin to do the best i can with what i got "

I have a friend when i was a boy, whose father made fiddles, he had a wide variety of jigs in his shop.

It looks like your off to a good start.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Hi Roy,
Good to see progress being made sorry about your broken bit. Takes a lot of time to get it smooth and thicknessed. Irritating when it breaks. Good luck on the next stage.
Regards
Dave

-- Dave D