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SamirCanada
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new workshop and project
Hi everyone,
I apologize for being somewhat of a ghost these days. I am quite busy with work but I have been finding some time to start on a new project these
days.
I am putting a new video tour of my redesigned condo workshop along with some shot of the progress on a new instrument bowl.
this one is white walnut & wenge
Thanks for the wood Jameel 
here is the work shop tour. Sorry for the shaky hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M92ocJmI1tQ
All the best Mike and the mikeouds family.
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SamirCanada
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Hello again fellas,
I have also launched my new oud making blog where I will be making entries about this and other projects.
http://samirnassifoudluthiery.blogspot.com/
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corridoio
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Hi Samir
good idea the blog!
see you there
Ale
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fernandraynaud
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Wow, what a workshop! And I like the unknown guy you hired to play background music, who is he? 
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Good luck
Best regards and luck... with the workshop and the new projects
Yaron.
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FastForward
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Nice workshop Samir and the new project is looking good. The white walnut is quite interesting. Keep us posted.
Ibrahim...
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ExtreamTarab
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mabrook samir, very nice workshop...best of luck
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SamirCanada
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thanks for the nice words everyone!
it means a lot coming from you guys 
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jdowning
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Nice work Samir. Good luck.
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Mehran
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beauty - keep up the good work.
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Jameel
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A spare bedroom as a workshop...the secret dream of every woodworker. )
Enjoy it Samir.
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SamirCanada
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Completed bowl
Hi everyone,
Finally... here is the finished bowl.
Never... EVER! working with wenge again.
http://samirnassifoudluthiery.blogspot.com/
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Nice work Samir.
Can you elaborate on your wenge experience. I was tempted to make the bowl out of wenge and walnut but opted otherwise after reading that it was very
irritating to the lungs.
Now comes the part where you have to scrape and scrape and scrape.
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SamirCanada
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Hi Ibrahim, thank you for the nice words.
Of course I can elaborate,
Fortunately, I was not affected negatively health wise by working with the wood. I took great care to mostly use cutting tools (planes and chisels) so
I dont create much dust. The only time I had to sand a bit is for the final jointing of the ribs where I just used a flat melamine particle board with
some sand paper glued to it. This is just to remove the plane marks and make the joint smooth. Even after wearing a dust mask and going very slow I
had a couple of sneezes. Similar to what I get from sanding rosewood sometimes.
Now onto working with wenge, first it is really hard to bend and it wants to spring back quite a bit as it cools. This is probably compounded by the
fact that I was working with the white walnut in between and it a charm to work with. Wenge is also very hard and will dull your tools in no time. I
dont know how much you like to sharpen but you will have to do it often. I am not sure how it compares to rosewood in that sense but I will find out
in my next project. Finally, the biggest problem with working with wenge is the grain direction issues. It only takes well to planing in one direction
(like most woods) but then it also splinters like hell. those splinters are quite dangerous and I got stuck many times. They stay in your skin on your
hands and they are really to small to remove with tweezers, they are barely the size of a hair.
Anyways I hope this helps,
You are right now onto the scraping part. I started doing it yesterday... what a drag that is.
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Confession: I hate sharpening too. I sharpened my plane twice for working on the bowl and I think the second time was not necessary.
The splinters can be very annoying and I reckon that especially if they are really small. They hurt and they swell and you can't do any work for a few
days because of them.
Thanks Samir.
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charlie oud
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Fine work Samir, keep us posted if you have the time. Its a delight to see this in progress and your lovely workshop. Oud workshops are fascinating
little dwellings. Self contained little universe where all the ouds come from. I hope all progresses well for you.
Best Wishes, Charlie
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SamirCanada
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some updates
The bowl is now scraped smooth.
and here are some of the diamond inlays I will be using as the theme for this oud.
for more details and updates visit my blog at
http://samirnassifoudluthiery.blogspot.com/
thank you,
Samir.
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Nice work Samir, can't wait to see and hear the finished oud. Is that Maple/walnut inlay?
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SamirCanada
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yah Maple Walnut.
I didnt decide yet but I might make some wenge and white walnut ones to keep the same wood theme.
But the raqma will be walnut so... not sure what will look best.
The face will be alskan yellow cedar... and its not really pleasant to work with either. It smells VERY strong but not like western red cedar which
smells nice.
This smells like Zaatar almost but not as delicious.
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Inlaying by hand
Hi everyone,
some more updates on the oud.
the face has been planed down and I started hand inlaying the decorative pieces into the face.
check out the pictures at the link below to see how I do this by hand instead of using power tools
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Sazi
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Looking good Samir, and I like the idea of music rather than power tools, but I reckon I'd be concentrating too hard to listen to it!
Looking forward to seeing and hearing this one finished.
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Hi Samir,
this looks very nice,
Bravo 
Looking forward to see and hear the final result!
Dan
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Here are some more updates folks.
http://samirnassifoudluthiery.blogspot.com/
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paulO
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The oud's looking great Samir -- thanks for the updates - Cheers..Paul
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Great work Samir.
Almost there. It feels great doesn't it?
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