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Hi, I have built some furniture from poplar and am after a matt black stain, any rocomendations? I don't have access to any spraying facilities so will need to be applied by hand. Cheers, Si.

Thanks Pete, I have bought some Bedec Multi surface paint which I have used before, it says no primer required but just wanted to pose the question to see if anyone might consider it a sensible move to use something before the paint is applied.

Hi again guys, Nearly ready to paint this so am wondering what to use to prep the timber with. I will be painting it with a matt black waterbased paint. Ant recommendations or advice on the application of things like sanding sealer or shallac before painting welcome.

Thanks for the replies, John, my experience was a similar one as predicted by Mike and a few other kind contributors. My drawings acted only as a guide/approximation so began undercutting the bevels and offering them up and adjusted to fit, on some of the really small bevels I just skewed the...

Hi again all, I am in the process of gluing up my staves and am thinking ahead to fairing out my curve. I did a few trial runs with some pine and on the convex side used my jointer to take away the peaks and sanded it out. On the concave side I cut some sanding blocks conforming to the curve...

Thanks Pete, I have used CNC before for various horn projects but I don't get any joy out of the process, I am enjoying hand tools and find that gives me a more positive feeling about making things. I think I would rather make something badly by hand than CNC it these days. This is a pair of...

Thanks Guys, That makes sense but I reckon your overthinking it :) I will make your recommended amendments to the former, thanks for that, exactly what I need, your experience is most welcome and helpful. On the convex side theres only 1mm on the peaks, I have planes, cabinet scrapers and...

Forgot to say thanks for the post re. coopering and the explanation, really interesting and that's a serious plane! I have a fair bit of experience with a router and have a 1/2" Trend which is not small but have been trying to get to grips with some Japanese saws I bought which might be safer I...

Yes, very good, moving on...again. Once the curve is complete can I use my form work to act as a guide to trim the edges? Is it the done thing to run a router over a curved surface? Jacob, I was going to order an Axminster shapening kit for my plane blades but any thoughts on alternatives...

Hi Mike, Thanks for your comments, with the greatest of respect that is what I am doing albeit with 3 guides and ply cross bracing , I posed the question on how to keep the form work square and on the advice of BigMonka (thanks!) drew up a design that would do 2 curves for the price of one i.e...

Hi, Sorry for the confusion, there are 2 curves, one is, as you say an s curve and the other is a c curve for want of a better term. I think I can make my former do both, one on the top and one on the bottom, see pics.

That's great, really appreciate that.

Thanks Mike, sorry this former will be for a complete curve, there is another to do with a different profile after this one so yes I will be doing it as we have planned i.e doing the entire curve over a former fitting as I go. So you are saying just the 2 guides with some battens in between.

Thanks, I will tidy up the drawing once I have the basics down, yes the idea is to overshoot the curve by a few mm at each end and trim to fit. I am not sure what a triangular web is, could you expand?

Thanks, As I have said the materials (poplar) have been chosen for me by virtue of the speaker I am copying but have no fear, they sound fine. I drew up the former for the initial curve last night but again, having not done this before I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to comment on my...

Thanks Eric, Disinclined to get into horn theory here and the horn I am looking to make is a pre existing creation as stated back in thread, so I am essentially trying to copy it hence the discussion on how it might have been made. Keeping things practical i.e looking at the curve I am trying...

Thanks Mike and Jacob, I hear you. I just wanted to try out a few recommended ways of planing i.e skewing the blade, shooting board with shims etc before I attempted anything else. I have only ever used a router to copy curves from a template hence the CNC'ed formers. I wouldn't know how to...

Ok then, thanks for all the constructive advice, I will take it all on board but proceed on my own from here. Thanks.

I have a friend with a CNC router so work will be free and I was just wanting to plane some bevels to get a feel for it, I have a digital bevel that I can check if the plane work is any good. I understand that the next stage would be laying the components out across the former to see how they join.