k

Yes this is the purfling cutter I made for Zachary Taylor. There doesn’t seem to be a market for high end tools amongst the luthiers, so it is not economically viable and I have to try and make a living!

k

I don’t know if you remember, but I emailed you about your purfling cutter a few years ago. You made one for Zachary Taylor and he showed it off in a book he wrote on box making; I wanted to know if you were still making them.

I think you said back then even that it wasn’t something you would probably ever make again.

Still looks like a beautiful piece of work.

Cheers,

Ethan

Purfling is “a narrow binding inlaid into the edges of the top and often bottom plates of stringed instruments. Purfling serves to reinforce the plates and prevent cracking along their edges”. This tool cuts the groove for the purfling.

k

Didn’t have digital cameras in my furniture making days so no library of pictures. If I remember right you had to have a massive camera on a tripod and put your head under a shroud. The furniture I liked making was campaign furniture. I do have a coffee table in the military style (I know they didn’t have coffee tables!) but it is buried under a steam loco.

Karl