Project Quintessence

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Looking forward to following your log for this build. Great design and renders.
That fretwork is gonna take some doing.

Given that this was my first attempt at doing renders, I really am pretty pleased with how they turned out. Needless to say however, there is plenty of room for improvement. For several of them, I would start Kerkythea and let it run all night resulting in like 600 passes or more.

I am planning on cutting the front panel and top panel together since they are using the same design. The cutting will take long enough, but the sanding and touch up will take even longer. It is going to be a time consuming deal, but it should be a lot of fun!

One thing I did think of for the front panal was, since it is curved, you could laminate it.
As you said earlier, you have found a local source for hardwoods and if I remember correctly, sourcing good quality hardwoods at a fair price was a challenge before?
If you could just find someone locally that has a bandsaw to use, as I don't think from the photo of your scroll saw you will get the hight to cut a nice piece of
hardwood (I vote Cherry ) down into, say 3mm/3/16th sheets. Then you could laminate the sheet back together but with the right size radius cuvre in it.
As to making the jig to form the curve, for a man of your skill that shoulden't be that hard, should be fun actually, well, atleast more fun than playing with a beltsander for an hour.

Looking forward to your next update mate, good luck with it.

I really do appreciate the idea, but I have thought about your idea of laminating, and I don't think it will work. Its kind of hard to tell by the renders alone, but given the way I have it put together, I am looking at using a piece of 3/4" thick wood and sanding/carving out the front curve and curves of the edges, and then cutting the fretwork from the flat backside.

I pulled a couple of shots of just the front so that maybe I'll make more sense.

Ooooo

*goes and grabs some popcorn*

I figured I had better post this here for fear that if I don't, you will show up at my house out of the blue and I'll get beaten with the first piece of this build that you lay your hands onto! I could see myself trying to explain that one to my wife.