lefty guitar (#83)  Neck glued in place and heel cap fitted

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loads of sanding to do now.  OK kids, carry on with your work, I'll see you in about an hour!!

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#85 rosewood mando......

back glued to sides...



top joined, sound holes cut and braces glued on...

maple mandolin continues.... the fretboard was aslvaged from the damaged neck and fitted to a new neck... then fitted to the body now, the maple is pretty. it has figure in there, but now it's time to "pop the maple" and raise the grain first mix up some lacquer with yellow dye and apply to the maple sand it off re-apply and sand again then we're ready for regular clear coats

lefty acoustic neck work...





and testing the neck joint.







still cant get used to it all being back to front!!

I'm not generally a sweary person........

but when I was doing a last little shape of the mando neck.....

Hello Mr Truss Rod!!!



I was deeply saddened by this event.

ah well, this neck comes off and I make a new one.

Ho hum!!

maple binding bent and fitted



nice!!





fretboard slotted



trussrod slot cut and fretboard glued in place

some work on the lefty neck...

planed, trimmed, and the ears added to the headstock.

maple mando.....

some neck work done.

back carved and frets fitted





and the neck glued onto the body

lefty guitar.....

top glued to rim and edges trimmed.

#85 mando

so I had some rosewood left over from making the tenor guitar.....

and I had the side bender hot to make bindings on the other mando.....

so it seemed only right to start another mando!!

Rosewood sides bent



and as the back was a LITTLE narrow, I filled the gap with a maple stripe

#84 mando

neck join cut and neck profile rough cut

making a lefty with a cutaway is REALLY disorientating.

everything is just.... WRONG!!!!

and it's not just me, I remember talking to George Lowden and he had a guitar that was SUPPOSED to be lefty, but had ended up righty, because after making two tops and two sets of sides, it was SILL Righty!!

so, to make sure that the back goes on the BACK.....

I'm afraid I scribbled a bit on the tail block where no one will see!



and then glued the back on





cut the soundhole...



then started bracing



and added a maple bridge plate



glued up a neck, mahogany with a walnut stripe



and then started the sums for a fanned fretboard. remember it's a lefty.... my first lafty fan.... and I MUST remember that the fan goes the other way!!!

lefty guitar....

linings glued in



rosette cut



NEARLY ready to fit back to rim

strings on the mahogany zouk. still a lot of set up to do.....

# 84 mando.

neck laminated, walnut, maple, mango, maple, walnut. truss rod slot cut and ebony fretboard glued on



neck rough cut



body bound with walnut

#83 lefty guitar

back braced

#84 Maple mando cont.

linings glued in



brace on back



back glued to rim



and a rosewood patch ton the tail



top marked out



holes drilled and blade for scroll saw ready



and f holes cut and top braced



and top fitted to rim and trimmed