I’ve made some progress on #11 these past two weeks. The neck has been profiled, shaped, sanded and the headstock has been profiled. Here are a few pictures of what it looks like so far. The next step will be to complete any touch up and install it to the body, hopefully within the next week. Fitting the neck to the body is the first task. I’ll take a few pictures of the process and post them soon.
Neck shaped and ready for installation
Headstock shaped in the white
Shaped headstock with Naptha to show color
I also just discovered some work in progress pictures for ‘Ukulele #11 that I thought I had lost. There is just so much stuff on my computer sometimes it is easy to lose something, somewhere along the way! So, I thought I’d get a few pics posted. These show various aspects of the instrument under construction.
After installing, it is necessary to scrape the backstrip
Installing the back braces
Installing soundboard braces in Go Deck
Shaving the soundboard braces
Back before installation with braces shaved
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