At last!

This week, I finally completed all the purflings and bindings on Ian’s guitar; and literally all-day yesterday was spent carefully cleaning up the body ready to cut the dovetail for the neck. It may appear to have taken a long time, but when you use cloth tape to hold the bindings in place, you can only glue one piece on at a time as the tape has to pull the binding down and in to the rebate, also I like to give ebony bindings a full 24 hours for the glue to dry. Here is the final result………….

Now whilst waiting for the glue, I haven’t been idle; the next two mandolins (for Alan and David) are now underway.

 

One of the pearl Ns being cut by hand.

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