Bizman62 Posted November 12, 2022 Report Share Posted November 12, 2022 Ooh! You seem to live in a rintamamiestalo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2022 27 minutes ago, Bizman62 said: Ooh! You seem to live in a rintamamiestalo! Not quite. Although structurally similar and made at the same era (1949) this house has a different layout. 2 full height floors and a basement. With hip roof (aumakatto). But yeah, same problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted November 12, 2022 Report Share Posted November 12, 2022 OK, was just looking at the door Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Bizman62 said: OK, was just looking at the door Yes. They are typical to the era. Shellacked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted November 12, 2022 Report Share Posted November 12, 2022 24 minutes ago, henrim said: Shellacked I've been wondering what kind of a finish that is. But is it really shellac? At least our doors have a very thick layer on them and on some doors it's heavily checkered. Even if there's a different type of finish over shellac, it shouldn't cause that as shellac is known to be very compatible with other finishes. When I was a kid on 3rd in the kansakoulu we used some thick stuff which took quite a while to dry. I guess that must have been some oil based varnish, something like I suppose Le Tonkinois might be. Or it might be good old nitro, it was quite commonly used at least on furniture. It's relatively easy to test: If it dilutes to alcohol, it's shellac. If not, it's nitrocellulose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2022 I believe they used different finishes at the time. What ever was available. Nitrocellulose had already mostly replaced shellac in furniture finishing. But these doors have shellac finish. At least the one I repaired a few years ago had (and still has). I was not expecting it to be shellacked but it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2022 Here’s a study on the subject (in Finnish). Where they also expected nitro but the door in question had shellac on it. So I guess at least those two were used at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2022 Actually I never really thought about it but this room has different kind of doors than the rest of the building. That door in the previous picture quite likely doesn’t have shellac on it. All the other doors indoors are like in the attached picture. Live and learn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted November 13, 2022 Report Share Posted November 13, 2022 Very interesting instrument. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2022 I put strings on it and wow, that is a funny little instrument. Anyway decided to shave the neck a bit more. It actually felt pretty good but I didn’t like the looks Anyway the thing that struck me while shaving the neck was that I have thousands of euros invested in tools but the tool I like to use the most is a thin piece of sheet metal Gotta love a decently sharpened scraper! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2022 I just want to see if this works. Linking a video I mean, not the video itself. Sorry about that 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2022 I was going to hook up a bobbin to my mini lathe and try winding a pickup. But then I suddenly remembered I have an extra servo motor and controller. I got that motor for my old industrial sewing machine few years ago when its old AC motor started to show severe clutch problems. It was a nice upgrade but I retired the machine when I got a new sewing machine. This motor was still bolted under the table and I didn’t remember its existence until yesterday. Now that is going to make a nice winder. With a foot controlled speed adjustment! Like I needed an other side project. But can’t pass it now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2022 Now here’s the thing mounted on a table and counting revs. Can go up to 3500 rpm which may be a bit more than I need. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2022 Not much progress on this one but I got the potentiometer mounts done. This a simplified design from what I tried in my current slow progress guitar build thread. This is how it’s going to be done there. Some fine tuning needed though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2022 Le neck is pretty much finished. Headstock veneer will be painted and maybe a few more thin layers of danish oil applied to the back of neck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 I love this pic. Hiding in plain sight. It reminds me of the scene with ET hiding in the closet full of dolls. SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted November 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 4 hours ago, ScottR said: I love this pic. Hiding in plain sight. It reminds me of the scene with ET hiding in the closet full of dolls. SR Cheers Now this extra terrestrial thing has to wait some time to be painted. With the current electricity prices I won’t heat the paint booth until I have some other things to paint at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 A dulcimer kit was my first build so to speak, now that I think of it. The fret pattern has always fascinated me. On day I need to research it and see where it came from. SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted December 1, 2022 Report Share Posted December 1, 2022 Some really cool stuff in this thread henrim. your pickup winder is impressive. the fit of the dulcimer - very nice. cool beans. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted February 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 Finally got the primer on. Hoping to get the color sprayed tomorrow. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted February 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2023 Sprayed the color on yesterday evening and I kinda hoped it would be done in one go (or two actually, wet on wet with 10 min evaporation in between). But now that I sanded it with 1200 grit I almost got through to primer layer on couple spots in the edges. Need to spray one more coat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted February 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 Things I generally would like to avoid. Chiseling after finishing. Yes, I realized I had forgotten to make slots for pickup ears. I chose to chisel instead of doing more harm in drill press or mill. Obviously it would have been easier to do the slots when I milled the cavities, but for some reason I didn’t and then forgot them all together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 9 hours ago, henrim said: I chose to chisel instead of doing more harm in drill press or mill. For such a shallow groove a sharp chisel is most likely the best tool. Drill bits don't work well at edges like that, no matter how well you can clamp the body, I'm not familiar with milling but for what I've seen on videos it would have been both accurate and delicate, but clamping a finished body securely without leaving marks sounds like an effort. That said, I've seen a professional builder do all drilling after finishing and when I asked if it wouldn't have been safer to do beforehand he said that with sharp drill bits and a steady hand it saves time as the holes don't require cleaning after painting, and that relatively fresh paint is soft enough not to chip that easily. Also, the paint looked quite forgiving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostdive Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 If you're feeling lazy like me, you could cut a filler piece of wood for the cavity so that the bit doesn't wander. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrim Posted February 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 5 hours ago, Bizman62 said: clamping a finished body securely without leaving marks sounds like an effort. That's the thing. Otherwise I'm not too scared to do drilling on a finished body. Also, quite likely I would have spent more time on aligning the piece to the milling machine than I spent chiseling. 24 minutes ago, ghostdive said: you could cut a filler piece of wood for the cavity so that the bit doesn't wander. Yes, that's a good way to do half holes on edges. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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