Cumpiano classical class pictorial

[Kim]

Someone emailed me this link and i thought there maybe some interest here.

http://picasaweb.google.com/CJ.Schultz5 ... ianoClass#

Cheers

Kim

[kiwigeo]

I heard Bill Campiano gets alot of his wood from Mario daCosta...must be good stuff as Campiano features on daCostas forums.

Has anyone here bought wood off Mario and if so what are your impressions of same?

[kiwigeo]

Interesting stuff but so far Ive noted the following:

1. lots of photos of people putting their fingers in silly places in relation to sharp tools and bandsaw blades. Check out the one of the tail graft going through the bandsaw...one finger is millimetres from the blade. Then go to photo No 344 and check out the large bandaid on somebody's hand...wonder what happened there??
2. clamping down the tail graft with a caul sitting directly on the graft (good chance of the caul sticking to the graft)...I use wax paper under cauls when theres the remotest chance of glue squeeze out.
3. trimming heel block cap with chisel...I never work towards the body of the guitar....almost guaranteed to split the cap.

[Kim]

Martin, I don't have much to say about the tonewood vendor you mention because I would rather not promote that kind of operation here on the ANZLF. Suffice to say it is my opinion that if you need to rely upon making up your very own fruity names for a product in order to grab attention, then chances are that the product has no outstanding properties of its own. As always, buyer beware.


As for the pictorial I would not be too harsh. You make some very valid points regarding safety and tool use and they were glaringly obvious to me as well. However I think it would be reasonable for Bill Cumpiano to assume students who sign up for a class to complete a classical guitar would bring with them a reasonable level of experience with wood working tools. I would also imagine that BC would need to spread himself quite thin to make sure each student had 'grasped the task' before moving on. This would mean those proceeding would do so without much supervision and quite often when you are photographing a subject or operation, it becomes necessary to move your fingers/hands to a position or angle they would not normally be to enable the image to capture the point of the exercise.

I think if we keep safety mind, this pictorial offers some very good information and i commend the student for undertaking the mammoth task of documenting the process with over 450 images and also Bill Cumpiano for not only allowing him to do so, but also for then allowing him to make that information freely available on the internet.

Cheers

Kim

[kiwigeo]

Points taken but the huge bandaid on the guys hand suggests that at least one action shot wasnt staged. For a while I had a bandaid in exactly the same place on one of my hands after trying to trim brace ends just like in one of the photos.