April 20, 2011

Palo Escrito is a pleasure to work with.  I first planed the sides down to about .075″ with the Safe-T-Planer then passed them through my newly repapered drum sander to smooth them and bring down to .070″.  This is very thin, but not so for a cutaway bend.  I bent the non-cutaway side first to practice bending this stuff for the first time.

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This photo shows the setup before plunging the waist press, then drawing the spring bars down across the bouts.

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I’ll let this sit for a couple of hours, reheat then let sit overnight.