Neck Carving day!

Roughly shaped and initial testing my oscillating spindle sander for the volute.Still some work to…[Read more]

Busy busy busy.. A couple of days ago, I installed side dots , cut the fretslots to proper depth and glued the fretboard to the neck.

Routed the body yesterday, A bit nervous about the sharp horns, but to…   Read more»

sorry missed that

@frocesterbill No worries, I did not mention this before 😀 

if you cut out the wing shapes on your bandsaw keep the bits you cut off to use to clamp on the @frocesterbill I only cut out the innershape of the horns, so I had rectangular shapes to clamp. Only…   Read more»

Fretboard markers done, radiussed to 16″ radius.Only thing to do is check and saw the slot to depth, install the side dots and glue the fretboard on.

Glued the okoume wings to the body

I planed both sides,…   Read more»