Overdue Updates

Hey everyone. First off, I would like to apologize for the totally lack of posts for almost an entire week now. Once I began carving my necks last weekend it seemed like all hell had broke loose. Drama in the luthiers' lodge and an increasingly close finishing date as well as the lack of much needed materials has turned this class into a war-zone almost overnight! Altogether though, things are coming along quite nicely. I will be posting more pictures tomorrow, but in the meantime...



That's the Mike Virok Guitars model CMCg-I semi-hollow prototype guitar. It's the closest one to being finished that I have on the bench right now. The other 3 electric models are sitting off to the side (I have to wait for the truss-rods to arrive via UPS this week, and without them I am dead in the water!) waiting to be completed. So, in the meantime I spent a good portion of my Saturday carving the hell out of this guitar and enjoying the muscle aches that accompany the hard work. Since it's taking quite a long time to get all of these guitar rolling, and I refuse to leave here with any of the unfinished as playable guitars, I am not going to build my acoustic guitar while down here in Georgia. Instead, I will take the materials home with me and build the acoustic in the comfort of my own state of New Jersey. Maybe once I get home I'll really be able to apply this knowledge to it's fullest extent and make a decent living on my craft.

Sunday is our day off here at the school. The past 2 weeks we've been putting in extra hours on Sundays to get things done that needed to be done. This week, Matt & I are hell-bent on escaping for a few hours to Athens to enjoy the local entertainment (at least whatever we can take in for the small amount of time we'll be out and about). When we're done we'll probably end up with the others at the workshop getting some more chores finished on our guitars.

Until tomorrow (eh, later today!), adios!