Petrzelka #3 Ziricote and Sitka 00-12

[Kevin in California]

Daniel, so you have a closet with humidy control for your wood?
Where in the NW are you located?

[Daniel P]

Kevin,

I'm about an hour north of Seattle. More often than not our humidity is on the high side, so I set up a dehumidifier to bring it down to between 45-50%. I don't currently add any moisture. Overkill I'm sure, but I'm trying to be thorough with my approach to building.

As you can see on the gauge - this time of year the humidity drops a little. ( My buddies D-28 and D-15 just had some huge cracks open up as he left them out of the cases on stands this past week )

Daniel, so you have a closet with humidity control for your wood?
Where in the NW are you located?

[Kevin in California]

Daniel,
I think you are near John Parchem. Have you guys hooked up?

[Daniel P]

John lives about halfway between my house and my office - we've exchanged emails many times, but have yet to meet up. I very much look forward to meeting him in person - he does some inspiring work, and has shared many great ideas with me.

Daniel,
I think you are near John Parchem. Have you guys hooked up?

[Daniel P]

Making a little more progress on the 00-12 Ziricote.

Jointed the back plates with a hand plane. I had a nice square piece of wood propping the halves up, as you would with a shooting board. Simple.

[Daniel P]

I used a simple outline template to visualize how much of the light sapwood I wanted to plane away. I ended up going for a little narrower strip than this. Tough call, as there is no putting wood back on once you plane it off.

[dave d]

Looks awesome to my eyes.