Hollowing out the front continued

For the first time, I am writing on what has happened today. I continued with the hollowing out of the front. Nothing too special here, I drilled more holes to mark the depth and gouged the excess out. I am not going too close on the thickness now and some of the marks are still quite clear. I prefer to take things slowly so that I don't mess anything up. The front plate is starting to feel a lot lighter already. I am turning the cello around in the photos below. It might not be clear from the partial cello visible.

My drill press is quite small. Or rather it is not a drill press at all, just a drill stand. I cannot reach the middle of the lower bout with it. That region I will need to do by eye. Luckily the area is pretty small.

Building a cello is quite interesting. There are times when one needs to be very careful and remove only a fraction of a millimetre at a time. And just a moment later one can take large heavy shavings. I like that. Although not really clear from the photos, I managed to roughly hollow out the whole front plate. Next time I will start refining the plate thickness. The plate should be of fairly uniform thickness in the end. Just a little thicker near the sound post and the sound holes.