My first cello.

[My first cello.]

1250 Watt 220 Volts heating element

very hot:) 5 minutes of work and near hour or more can't touch by hand, very hot.

now i make device for less power for heating element.

[My first cello.]

My bending iron is ready.

[Best fingerboard, where to buy]

My custom made 5 string cello fingerboard from India.

I like how it was made and AAA ebony.

50$ for fingerboard and 12$ for economy shopping to Belarus.

[My first cello.]

Please help me with neck plan with dimensions.

[My first cello.]

My fingerboard from India!

Very high quality of wood and work!

[My first cello.]

I understand it:)

But I have not so much money for cool tone wood

This spruce selected from many wet planks of spruces and pines

I hear good tone when strike it.

[My first cello.]

I like quarter cut but it's really difficult to find:(

After 4 hours of selection at furniture factory

I found few peaces of spruce

But it is wet spruce

need to wait until spring to dry

I think 2 peaces with quarter in center and 2 another to sides

[My first cello.]

Several days ago I started to search 5 string cello fingerboard

Searching at ebay.

So many indonesian ebony fingerboards from china makers.

But I know that Ceylon or Sri Lanka ebony is really cool:)

I found indian maker WBO with high grade ebony fingerboards

But he has 4 and 6 string cello fingerboards

I agreed with him about the production of 5 string fingerboard

Today I paid my custom fingerboard

Before order fingerboard I drew in coreldraw

and found correct dimension

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272044724602?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Thanks to Jitesh Jain (WBO) from India to help me with fingerboard!

 

My 5 String cello fingerboard dimension:

 

Length: 580 mm

Width at Bridge Side: 75 mm
Width at Nut Side: 39 mm

 

string spacing

Bridge: 61 mm

Nut: 30 mm

 

[My first cello.]

Slab-cut spruce? Can it work? I don't know, I'm just asking.

Slab-cut spruce? I don't understand what it mean:(

[My first cello.]

Just need to add a box:)

[5 string Cello specifications?]

Shape of cello body important, but i think only for eyes:)

It's just a box

More strings more pressure to all parts.

Neck and fingerboard wider

But what about thickness of belly and bass bar

If bridge legs wide than need to do little wider space between bass bar and sound post.

[3/4 cello pattern]

Hello trey

First of all I found cello plans.

Thanks very much for Pedro Lopez from Spain.

Link to his pageshttp://pedrolopezluthier.blogspot.com.by/2013_10_01_archive.html

Link to his cello planshttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103042542/Planos_violonchelo.rar

Use this plans and resize it in coreldraw

[My first cello.]

Today is lucky day.

I found main parts for making bending iron.

First test of heater

First in my life wood bending, 1.5 mm ash

[Stew-Mac Purfling Dremel jig, Ibex purfling marker, mammoth scrap]

Hello!

Can you shipping to Belarus via USPS first class international Stewart MacDonald machined aluminum Dremel jig?

If yes, please tell me how much?

Thanks, Mikola.

[My first cello.]

Can anyone help me with 4/4 cello neck plan with all dimensions?

[5 string Cello specifications?]

5 string cello project based on Amati cello

http://5stringcello.com/english/

[My first cello.]

[My first cello.]

Another day of making back.

[My first cello.]

Can anyone help me with 4/4 cello neck plan with all dimensions?

[If you are uploading photos, please read!]

Can you post photos from an i pad here?if so how?

I use dropbox on iPad and PC for sharing photo or other files

important! use Public folder for sharing!

[My first cello.]

After day of work.

[My first cello.]

Few days ago I was found maple for back.

[My first cello.]

You can try the following website to buy some tonewood if interested. From my experience at least, their service is good.

 

https://www.tonewood.sk/

Thank you Kallie for link

But I think to use less cost wood for first cello:)

[My first cello.]

First of all I found cello plans.

Thanks very much for Pedro Lopez from Spain.

Link to his pages

http://pedrolopezluthier.blogspot.com.by/2013_10_01_archive.html

Link to his cello plans

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103042542/Planos_violonchelo.rar

[My first cello.]

Hello.

Sorry for my English.

I live in Minsk, Belarus.

I repair guitars and made few for myself. Rock vocalist and guitarist too:)

After watching videos of 2Cellos I started to like cello.

My elder son started to learn play cello in music school.

I was repaired your 1/4 cello (moscow factory cello).

And now I think to make new cello for him.

I think 5 strings cello will more interesting.

Not so easy to find good tonewood in Belarus.

I planning to use simple wood (plain maple).

Also think to make not full classic cello

But with some modern feature.