NCAL at Ervin Somogyi's Shop, Berkeley:
Dec. 1998 Meeting Photos
Frank Ford, 12/14/98; Photos by FF,12/13/98
Ervin's shop is crowded with tools and fixtures, but we managed to sort ourselves out well:
There were about 40 of us, new members and old:
That's Brian Burns with the clipboard taking a survey of our scraper sharpening methods. He's working on some scraper sharpening tools and techniques in an attempt to achieve the perfect edge>
Here's one of the newer items in Ervin's shop:
It's a neck shaping duplicator that we saw most recently in the R&D shop (Brian's basement.)
The main presentation was by David Schramm, who gave us a short course in classical guitar marquetry rosette design and execution:
Michael Lewis brought a new archtop guitar he made from some of Alicia Carter's fabulous old growth redwood:
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