Montgomery Scott
06-18-2010, 4:08 PM
These are the excellent quality drivers that Lee Valley sells. I made the handles from some cocobolo billets I got locally for $12/bd ft. At first I cut the octagonal sections on the table saw at 1.5" across the flats. I felt they were too big for the hand so I ran them through the jointer down to 1-11/32". They feel about the right size now. I turned the handle ends on the lathe and gave them two coats of semi-gloss lacquer
The box is cherry, with cherry pomelle veneer from B&B Rare Woods with a Gabon ebony lift, aromatic cedar for holding the drivers and brass box hinges from Lee Valley.
The finish is two coats of BLO/spar urethane/MS and two top coats of helmsman satin oil based spar urethane, except for the ebony that got a coat of lacquer.
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The box is cherry, with cherry pomelle veneer from B&B Rare Woods with a Gabon ebony lift, aromatic cedar for holding the drivers and brass box hinges from Lee Valley.
The finish is two coats of BLO/spar urethane/MS and two top coats of helmsman satin oil based spar urethane, except for the ebony that got a coat of lacquer.
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