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Each week (hopefully) we update this page with new photos of instruments in progress. The updates are usually made on Monday.

We hope that you enjoy seeing the progress on your instrument and those of others who have them on order.

 

Week ending June 3, 2002

VG34 has the keybox, peghead, and bridges glued on. The peghead is drillled for the machine tuners.

 

VG35 has the soundboard glued on and the binding channel is cut.

 

For the shaft and wheel removal on the Pimpard restoration, an X-ray is used to determine the size of the drill that is needed to drill out the tail bearing.

 

Since we didn't have a drill the right size already, a new one was made. Here it has just been heated to glowing red and quenched in hot oil to harden it so the teeth will stay sharp.

 

The new custom drill has been buffed and reheated gently to temper the metal. Here it is being used to drill out the tail bearing.

 

The Pimpard with the shaft and wheel removed.


See last week for more pictures.

 


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Alden and Cali Hackmann
Olympic Musical Instruments

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