Graduating Maude’s top plate

This post shows a finger plan used while thinning the spruce top plate.

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Photo taken at: Amelia Island

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I took his photo while I took a breather from planing the top plate.  This process defines the final thickness of the top plate. The top plate is spruce.  Spruce works a bit like a drum head in vibrating the violin sound. When finished the plate thickness will be between 2.9 and 3.5mm.

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Violin Maude: Graduating…. this is where the voice happens….

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