Melvin Goldsmith

If I remember correctly Koen Padding was a big advocate of finishing the wood with this plant and recommended it with the instructions for his latest ground

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I use pine for linings they are little stubborn, but the shortened clothepins would be enough.

Hi Peter, 

One of the important things with spruce for linings is that the wood is quartered and cut exactly on the split. This makes them a lot easier to bully into shape with the bending iron. The same applied to willow helps too. I use the flimsy pegs in the photo for spruce cello linings too. 

Melvin, does the mold attach to that pipe or is it just balanced there for drying? Cheers,

 Necessity being the mother of invention I made it a long time ago in about 5 minutes in the farm workshop without really thinking but it's proved useful.

Clever!

Yes indeed!...BUT.....If you need a lot of muscle to clamp ribs and linings together you are doing something wrong and also running the risk of distorting your rib outlines...as I said it should be a very simple procedure to bend linings to fit the ribs in a few minutes for the whole structure....If you can't do this easily in a few minutes, you need more practice not stronger clamps.