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It would add another significant cost to your project, but the Obrien archtop course might prove invaluable http://www.obrienguitars.com/courses/archtop/
I have his classical course, and whilst the demonstrator is different, the production is superb. Might I also suggest you avail yourself of the Benedetto archtop building book - again not quite a cello, but similar techniques for the carving of the plates.
One significant advantage of building something smaller to start with would be cost of materials - an inadvertent slip with a drill or chisel on a £50 piece of spruce or sycamore is a helluva lot easier to stomach than on a £200-£400 set. You could even have a go at doing an archtop ukulele and use any bit of 'scrap' hardwood, whilst gaining the skills for carving/bridge fitting/etc.
Or scrub all that and go straight for a full carbon fibre body in colour-shift spray finish
Good luck with it,
Adam
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
I've not even bought any of the timber yet. Construction is probably a couple of months away.
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Nah. Too sensible for this place. See below: I'll wis your post, Sporky, if you'll tell me whether it was the rosin or the pig whizz that gave the red colour. I ask because ’Er Indoors’s is a very deep red, and I want to fantasise about vast vats of porcine pee, perhaps produced in places proximate to Prague prudently re-purposed in its production.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4325/35483867563_c84c7778ce_b.jpg
’Ers is at the back. That's an awful lot of piggy pee! (The ones in front are *much* newer, probably a century or more, so might not contain any porcine by-products.)
Oh. And in the interests of contributing something worthwhile, I understand it is the done thing to combine two different brands of string. I'll find out which, exactly.
We had a Silent Cello over at the weekend (with decent strings on it), and she liked it much better than the one we tried years ago in a shop. Maybe that can be borrowed next time she needs amplification, microphones have been dissatisfactory so far, and the fitting of pickups is, well, worrying.
I was pretty sure that it'd all be finished by now, so dropped by with my wows at the ready.
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http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/builds/sporkcello/01 strad poster front.jpg
http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/builds/sporkcello/02 strad poster rear.jpg
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Phwoar! StripeAy!
I have some ideas on how to solve that for Sporcello 1. They may not turn out to be good ideas, of course... there have been a lot of attempts to deal with such problems.