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Is there still interest in the ribbon controller project? Ok, maybe
morbid fascination? Chub and his dad have started the lastest
installment of the ribbon controller this week- the cool walnut
housing! If anybody cares AND if Larry Hendry can spare the web
space for another PDF file, I'll take more pictures and (honestly)
proofread what I write this time.

I've mentioned to a few of you that my dad and I had been given a
felled black walnut tree by my neighbor. Now, a year and a half
later, we were finally able to use some of the boards we milled. I'm
telling you, when you look at rough-cut lumber you can't see much but
a fuzzy outline of the grain. After Dad and I run it through the
planer a couple times, though, the full beauty of the wood becomes
apparent. These first boards were from the heartwood. There's not
much dry enough to use yet, but this is the creme! When you think
walnut, you think "dark" and "fluid grain pattern" and the like.
THIS is so COLORFUL-purples and browns and black and yellow(!)and
gray and red-that it barely seems "walnut". Suffice it to say that
I'm VERY pleased and Dad is totally stoked that he's got a whole tree
to go yet! I'll take pictures of the boards to be used for the
controller, uncut, then after I butcher and shape them before
gluing. This project will be mostly about working with 3/4" boards
and everyday wood tools(okay, so I plan to use a router and a Dremel
with router base and bits...)and my rudimentary skills. I'm leaving
Dad out of this bit. Well, it IS his router...

Chub-Wal Nut