What a great day I had today! I really knocked out a lot of work. Check out those necks!!! The head-stocks are right there, just like I wanted them to start shaping into. These CMCg's are going to be a neat bunch o' axes. So far I only have one mahogany neck-through blank begun and a canary wood bolt-on. I am most likely going to head back out to the lumber market this week and pick up more supplies, unless I can manage to piece together something around the shop for a sandwich neck of some sort. I'd still need something "plain" for the back of my other canary wood top. That'll come with time though. Oh precious time!
And here is the newly glued and traced body for the latest CMCg (this one is the bolt-on). I still need to figure out a neck for this one. Now that I am thinking about it, there should be enough extra "stuff" laying around the shop, and if not I'm sure that my instructor Gary would gladly sell me a piece of something nice to make another neck (suitable for a bolt-on style like this one). Maybe a single piece of Sapele or something along those darker lines would work nicely. If not, I have a birds-eye maple neck that failed on it's last go out, so I could always sandwich some blood-wood (or even better, some Wegnge if it's laying around!) just to mimic the sandwich on the body that is now going to be exposed. I'm still in need of a body back for the extra canary wood top I cut out earlier this week too... wow, lots of projects to get moving on!!!
Anyhow, back the intelligible parts of this blog... tomorrow!!!
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