{"id":622,"date":"2013-03-30T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/?p=622"},"modified":"2016-12-06T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:24:55","slug":"dovetailing-and-steam-bending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Dovetailing and Steam Bending"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have been making good progress this last week of Paul’s spring break. \u00a0Every evening we can dive in and work. \u00a0At this point the marimba, when we assemble it, sounds great. \u00a0So why aren’t we done after more than 1 year? \u00a0Well, we love the wood. \u00a0Building the frame has become a project of it’s own with the complex sliding box design and our addition of contrasting dark Wenge wood to the top.<\/p>\n

So… we needed to learn how to dovetail. \u00a0Let me just say, that even with a new dovetailing jig, and several trips for more tools, it is a complex process. \u00a0We have completed 4 “boxes” as we call them. \u00a0They will support the “end blocks” (the ends of the marimba that hold up the “rails”. \u00a0In puzzle-like fashion the boxes are then mounted in a “pedestal”. \u00a0(we have realized that coming up with our own standard names for things has helped significantly as we work together.. “hand me the end thing” was getting old)<\/p>\n

Below, are some pictures of our latest work. \u00a0Our wood shop consists of a set of homemade tools and jigs, the garage, and the kitchen counter :-)<\/p>\n

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The perfect size<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dovetailing<\/a>

Dovetailing is labor intensive, but oh so gorgeous<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our first (failed) attempt at steam bending<\/p><\/div>\n

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Steam bending is all fun and games until Paul set’s Beth’s favorite pot holder ablaze<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our successful steam bending contraption<\/p><\/div>\n

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A lebkuchen tin makes the perfect radius for our steam bending :-)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Steam bending the Wenge<\/p><\/div>\n

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A glimpse of the frame<\/p><\/div>\n

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Click this image for a short marimba test<\/p><\/div>\n

P1040589<\/a><\/p>\n

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The steam bent Wenge wood on the pedestal<\/p><\/div>\n

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We have been making good progress this last week of Paul’s spring break. \u00a0Every evening we can dive in and work. \u00a0At this point the marimba, when we assemble it, sounds great. \u00a0So why aren’t we done after more than … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}