00 zouk....

the last week or so.....

not a fish, this is the bracing!!



soundhole cut after glueing on a patch to support it



neck carving started, but still a long way to go....



braces glued in.....



maple bridge plate.....



and the top is on!!

life is very busy in school at the minute.

open night is coming up and we've decided to go all mechanisms in the Technology & design dept.

firast a clatterpillar and "Bath time at granny's"

the clatterpillar needs painted, and the faces on the bathtime "victims" need re-done as the sad mouths look more like moustaches.

118 118 anyone?

dunno why but the embedding isn't working for these....... works fine with preview.... ah well, follow the links to see......

http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/gowanedwards/?action=view¤t=Picture069.flv

and then a little digger.

it has since been dismantled and primed, ready for yellow & black gloss on Monday.



http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/gowanedwards/?action=view¤t=Picture070.flv

as far as guitarry stuff is concerned, the cutaway mando is in the post, I have to arrange a meet up with the OM's new owner for a handover, and the abalone for the rosette on the jumbo is mislaid in the post mid atlantic.

Cutaway mando & OM pretty much done.

just a little tweek needed on the set-up.

I recorded a little piece on them today

straight from the piezos to the PCs soundcard, the software is audacity, no FX, no eq and no quality in the playing!! My excuse is that my finger is still sore from when I took the end off it with a table saw a while back.......

still, here's Lolo's lulabye, a tune I wrote for my daughter.

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8451404

and here's what they look like

rosette work today.

00 zouk first...

marked out on a piece of scrap.... and the segments marked cut and glued down



then cut out to make a donut shape with a fly cutter....





cutaway jumbo marked out.....



segments cut and stuck down with superglue (CA)



cut round with a fly cutter....



same slots cut in top....



and track cut out with dremel.

I was then ejected from the building by the caretaker (janitor to the Americans)so assembly can continue tomorrow!

cutaway mando bridge pin holes reamed & pins fitted.



there are strings on it!!!



getting the wire for th pick-up out through that little hole to join onto the strap-jack is a LITTLE tricky, but with a little ingenuity and a crocodile clip on a cable........





the OM is pretty much done except for a little setting up.

I'll leave the mando & OM for a week or two to let them settle under the string tension before tidying up the last few wee tweeks and getting them off to thier new owners.

I MAY have to record a little something with them before they go.......







and the cutaway Jumbo is properly under way. the ends of the bent sides are trimmed and this is the back view, the biggest of the offcuts in the middle will become the cutaway



the tail block is glued in.