All four instruments are ‘closed up’, meaning the top and back are glued on. They also have the first coat of grain filler, so the color of the wood begins to show.
I use CA glue (cyanoacrylate) as a grain filler. It ‘wets’ the wood like shellac, meaning that it really brings out the color and grain, it dries fast, and sands to a fine powder, never clogging up sandpaper. The only problem is the fumes. I do put it on outside with a box fan and the wind behind me. Then things are hung up outside for a couple of hours to let the CA fully cure and off-gas..
Now on to bindings, scoops, starting to get the necks ready, and getting out the pearl for the fingerboard and headstock inlays. More detailed post of doing a complex inlay to come …
