It’s been a busy weekend with lots of good stuff.
While I worked away cleaning house on a beautiful Saturday afternoon Lonnie worked away in the workshop. He got the paper thin shims made in the morning and did the final dry fit for the neck in the afternoon. He had difficulty getting the neck set on center so after much back and forth he trimmed the neck block. This worked well and he was able to get the neck to fit nicely on center. He glued the shims to the neck joint (while I was cleaning windows so I have no pictures). Then later in the day he was able to glue up the neck and let it set overnight.
On Sunday he worked on the nut and fingerboard. The fingerboard is a good one, after some scraping Lonnie’s tool got hot and his fingers got tired. He said the fingerboard is one hard *%$! #!* and that’s a good thing. That means it is either ebony or really hard rosewood. Either way the fingerboard has lots of life in it and can take many more dressings. Now that the neck is set, the nut glued in place the fingerboard dressing started it won’t be too long until he moves onto the set up. It feels like every project takes longer then it should…but then again it takes as long as it needs to suit Lonnie’s high standards.
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| Working to get the neck on center at the dry fit stage |
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| The smallest details, a small shim at the bottom of the dove tail |
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| The neck glued and drying for 24 hours |
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| Popeye at rest... Here is a little video I played around with today! |
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