The latest batch of four is finished. In the end, the workbench is left a mess of small tools, sanding sheets from fitting nuts and bridges, doing various operations to get things ready for string-up. I’m going to do a real workshop clean-up, along with some thinking and browsing through the wood pile to decide on what to make next. Some new things: radiused fretboards (may have to come up with a different way of fret slotting), side sound ports (experiments in how to bind the edge of the port yet to be done) and I’m working on a jig to cut the sound hole. Can one bend a side with the hole cut flat? Never heard of it being done this way, but might be worth a try. I got a piece of Port Orford Cedar to try (see “wood pile”). Too many variables. The instruments just completed are numbers 38 – 41, and I have never built the same thing twice.
The latest four, a dogwood soprano, two concerts, apple & spalted sycamore, and the mystery sycamore “baritone”. Going to take some “real’ pictures which will get posted in the next couple of days.
