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Just thought I'd post a couple of simple homemade tools that make the job quick and easy (and more accurate) - these two are for purfling, but please, add any of your own that might help the members here when building...

These just happen to be about purfling because that's what I'm doing right now, but I'd kinda like to start a thread about ANY homemade tools/jigs that people might use.

Cool?

By the way, the blur here is a chisel, which I use for shaving the purfling to whatever profile the tip requires for the corner join. (notice it has already been bent on the hair curler... which was about $10, and which heats up in about - oh, say, ten seconds) After the tight curl is formed and the join is correct - it only requires very little further bending, and in fact, with this cheap fiber purfling, it very often will simply bend around the large curve of the bout with no further heat bending.

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Chet Bishop · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:06 am Post subject:

I like the cutting post. Good thought--I have always struggled with the bent purfling, and sometimes snapped it (the wooden variety) by snagging it on something while trying to manipulate it into position for cutting.
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kjb · Super Member Joined: 06 Feb 2013 Posts: 385

great thread ct, I really like the hair curler idea, I use the bending irons , but that looks faster by far! thanks.

ctviolin · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:48 am Post subject:

Chet Bishop · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:59 am Post subject:

Didn't they make a movie about that perticular brand of curling iron?
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ctviolin · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:06 am Post subject:

ctviolin · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:35 am Post subject:

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actonern · Super Member Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 444

It's easy to forget, but this is a commercially sponsored forum...

https://www.violins.ca/supplies/posts_bars_purfling.html

kjb · Super Member Joined: 06 Feb 2013 Posts: 385

good point!!

I have gotten it from three different places and they seemed to be fairly consistent , where they get if from ... china???
so I think I will go with lemuels European next time around.

ctviolin · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:18 am Post subject:

ctviolin · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:09 am Post subject:

SooT · Member Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 74 Location: Devon, UK

Love the curling iron idea. We just sold our bending iron as we are moving to UK, different electrical system there. I think we will be buying a curling iron and using that.

Please keep going with sharing home made jigs, they are the best and cheapest way of solving issues.

The only jigs we have are what other people have shown us. Simple, but do the job.

L P Reedy · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 4:57 pm Post subject:

Interesting how purfling definitions differ. I used to get great fiber from Int. Luthiers Supply, then tried Int. Violin's fiber. It was junk, so I switched to their wood, which I heard somewhere is made by Karin Rost. I didn't like the "German" style and switched to "Italian," which works OK. I assume Lemuel's is good, but seems to be thicker than I want and the blacks thinner.

And I use too many home made tools to list.

Mikes · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 5:56 pm Post subject:

Here's my version of Michael Darnton's purfling setup. Works great!
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ctviolin · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 6:45 pm Post subject: