The progress reports

Each week we update this page with new photos of instruments in progress. The updates will usually be sometime on Monday, which is the end of our work week.

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

Week ending December 29, 2003

A quiet week, what with the holidays and all. Happy Solstice! (and a couple of other holidays.)

LB05 - cutting the channel for the edging

Orca 3: milling the slots in the keybox blanks

Orca 3: gluing up the sandwich of the keybox

Orca3: slicing off the keybox side blanks on the bandsaw - cool new bandsaw blade! Yippee!

Orca3: Gluing up a new keyfront casting jig

Orca3: gluing together the keybox

Orca3: drilling the keybox side for the magnetic catches

Orca3: the keybox ready for finishing

Orca3: the new set of master keys

Orca3: the torch setup for brazing the tangents

Orca3,4,5: the tangent bodies ready for brazing

See last week, or next week, or the index of other weeks for more pictures.

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Alden and Cali Hackmann
Olympic Musical Instruments

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