SAS-01, with taravbar
Day 53: Assembling the body after sufficient drying (pardas, cikari- and tarav machine heads, jiwaris & strings). Day 54: Mounting the cikari pins and strings, and doing jiwari. Mounting the taravs and tarav jiwari. Now this semi-accoustic sitar is ready for a first play. Who wants to … ?
Joint Repair II end.
Finaly, at the end of july we were lucky to have had at least a couple of days good weather with nice sunshine. One of these days I succeeded to finish the polishing of this sitar. I’ ve been making some fresh new polish ready during a previous (short)…
Tarav strip
Day 50: Mounted all 24 pardas on this SAS-01. It’s a very delicate and time-consuming job: first accurate bending and height adjustment followed by binding the pardas. Day 51: After tuning the sitar properly, I put the pardas to their regular position. Then I draw a map, localizing the…
Soundholes
Yesterday I took an exciting decision: drill soundholes, or not …??
Meanwhile there are even some pardas mounted.
Assembling the SBS-02
The assembly of the body is now complete with strings and frets. Finally to be followed by installing the pickups and electronics … Day 46: First mounted the patri (comb), langoot (tail mount) and 5 main machine heads. After putting the jiwari the strings could be placed, followed by…
Finishing the body
We have now arrived at a final stage. The whole body of SBS-02 is nearly ready for assembly …
Transition
meanwhile, just a taster…
Joint Repair II cont”d
The joint has been fitted and glued again. On the left hand side you can see some adjustment strips sitting between the joint and the body. Then the tabli is glued to the body. A rope is used to keep the tabli fixed and under sufficient pressure at regular…
Parda lanes
Here we go again …
Day 41 en 42: Making and glueing the parda lanes. These are long and thin strips located on the sides of the neck to hold the pardas.
Joint Repair II cont’d
… after some time the glue became softened and the joint can be removed.
Now, the wooden parts need some time to dry thoroughly.