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I will be making a Krenov-style cabinet for my daughter’s wedding gift - so you know it has to be pretty good. She owns her own guitar repair shop (brooklynlutherie.com) and loves 20’s and 30’s instruments. Many of these were built with “fiddleback” curly maple and I will make the carcass out of it. The back will be spruce with a sunburst so you see it when you open the doors.

So I am going to attempt a coopered door in curly maple. This would be no problem to get the outside and inside radiuses correct if the wood were straight grained, but I am worried about the curly maple grain giving me hell. Does anyone have any tips for planing and scraping this wood? I know my tools need to be “sharp”.

Thanks

Ed