Got home and did a little more work.


Took the core out of the form.



For the riser, im going to use some of the Osage I cleaned up yesterday.


I split the block so I can add a walnut accent strip.


I also riped a piece of black walnut, that ill be using for the accent strip. I took the strip and ran it through my nifty homemade lam grinder. Actually its just my belt sander with an adjustible table I built on the bottom.


Here im grinding the walnut to get it all smooth and even for the glue up.



I forgot to take a pic of the glue up. Its nothing great, I just sandwitched the walnut between the two halves of the osage and clamped it together with c-clams. While the riser block is drying, ill cut and grind my belly lams.

I riped another piece of my Ipe board to 3/16". I cut it in half and run the two lams through my lam grinder and grind them down to 1/8".


Im pretty much done for tonight. Ill wait till tomorrow to shape the riser and glue up the riser and belly lams.

About all there is to do now is wait. In the mean time, ill scrap some of the rind off of the boo with a cabinet scraper.