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Aug. 16th, 2011 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillSo I mentioned I had family over, and they don't care for my singing plus I was very busy so I didn't practice the whole time they were here. Plus I was so busy for about a week before that I didn't practice much.
Well, I swear to you that my throat got out of shape. (Walking wise I stayed in pretty good shape because we went hiking several times.) Yesterday I sang 2 fifteen minute practices several hours apart because I couldn't hold my voice steady after fifteen minutes. Today I think I did a twenty or twenty five minute practice, and I think I was holding up better.
Of course, having to work back into practicing in short stages is not necessarily a bad thing because my fingers need to get their strength and endurance back and re-toughen the calluses. I lost less technique than I would have thought, and I'm getting both voice and mando back faster than I would have expected, so good on that.
I have written one new song this week, and finished another which sounds like it may sprout harmony, --I'm thinking about putting the latter up for Alice Day--so I'm feeling good about that.
And today I spokeshaved and sanded the bottom of the instrument case flush with the sides. The only problem is my disk sander kind of gouged into the sides because the sandpaper doesn't stick properly on the disk. I think I can sand the gouges out with my random orbital sander but it was kind of annoying, and some of the gouges are fairly deep.
I also bought a coping saw so I can saw the top out by hand and hopefully have to do less spokeshaving and grinding to get it flush with the sides. Getting the top flush will be pretty important because I mean to make the lip in the same way as the sides, and for the lip to glue properly to the top, the fit will have to be pretty close. I have the top about 40% cut out and so far the coping saw is much easier to use than I remember it being the last time I used one. Of course that may have something to do with being more coordinated and patient than I was when I was seven!
Well, I swear to you that my throat got out of shape. (Walking wise I stayed in pretty good shape because we went hiking several times.) Yesterday I sang 2 fifteen minute practices several hours apart because I couldn't hold my voice steady after fifteen minutes. Today I think I did a twenty or twenty five minute practice, and I think I was holding up better.
Of course, having to work back into practicing in short stages is not necessarily a bad thing because my fingers need to get their strength and endurance back and re-toughen the calluses. I lost less technique than I would have thought, and I'm getting both voice and mando back faster than I would have expected, so good on that.
I have written one new song this week, and finished another which sounds like it may sprout harmony, --I'm thinking about putting the latter up for Alice Day--so I'm feeling good about that.
And today I spokeshaved and sanded the bottom of the instrument case flush with the sides. The only problem is my disk sander kind of gouged into the sides because the sandpaper doesn't stick properly on the disk. I think I can sand the gouges out with my random orbital sander but it was kind of annoying, and some of the gouges are fairly deep.
I also bought a coping saw so I can saw the top out by hand and hopefully have to do less spokeshaving and grinding to get it flush with the sides. Getting the top flush will be pretty important because I mean to make the lip in the same way as the sides, and for the lip to glue properly to the top, the fit will have to be pretty close. I have the top about 40% cut out and so far the coping saw is much easier to use than I remember it being the last time I used one. Of course that may have something to do with being more coordinated and patient than I was when I was seven!
