Purfling 3

Finally it's time to put purfing inside of trenches which I made the other day. At first I cut purfling material into some pieces, and soak them in water. And bend them by hot iron, like making rib and linings.
Even thouhg books say "You don't have to bend purfling exactly same as outline." I have to bend it precisely. Because this time I'm using maple purfling(the center part purfling is made of maple), this type of purfling is kind of hard to bend without hot iron. Bending by hand without heat ness, it's easily get broken. White fiber type is pretty easier to bend, it's kind of elastic. Why am I using such a troublesome material? Because even though it's tough to use, I thought it's better the quality of material between back and purfling are same. Considering the effect to the sound.

Bending and shaping the corner part of purfling was pretty tough this time. I almost lost my patience, and got frustrated ^^;) So I didn't have enough energy to take a picture.

Sorry there's no photo of putting purfling inside of back this time. This is the photo after putting all the purfling. I could finish making purfling somehow. There's no photo of corner part? Hehehe, sory, for the moment I cannot show it yet. Maybe later!


My parakeet Sue is watching the result. "What do you think about the result, Ms. Sue?"
"Maybe, not bad. Better than last time."
"Merci, Madame."(^^)