Necks Carved on Both

Both the Crossover guitar and the Tenor Ukulele have the necks carved now.. The Crossover is Wenge for the back and sides so lots of pore filling to do for that one and then I need to make a couple of bridges, finish the fretwork and put the finish on both.

Time for One of the Fun Parts

Progress is good, ready to start carving the neck on the Crossover Guitar and just have to fret the Ukulele and I can start on that neck as well.. that and make some bridges and I can start finish prep..

Binding on the cutaway turned out OK as well..Nice for a first try..

Cutaway point binding, the tricky part.

Neck & Headstock Work

So I'm actually making progress on the crossover guitar..

The neck to body attachment is mostly done and the tuner slots are routed into the headstock.

This will be a completely removable neck so it has what can best be described in wood working terms as a floating tenon which is glued into a mortise in the neck and floats in a mortise in the body similar to a regular bolt on mortise & tenon neck. The reason for the floating tenon glued into the neck is to that propell nuts can be used and there is no possibility they will tear-out of neck end grain.

There will also eventually be a fingerboad support routed into the body.

Tenon with Propell Nuts

Neck Mortise

Glued in Place

Ready to Route the Slots

Done

Came out good!

Test fitting tuners

New Year - Same Guitar

OK this Crossover Guitar just does not want to become a guitar. I've been trying to make progress but it has been two steps forward and one back.. Speaking of backs the guitar has a new one after the last one did not do well with the humidity changes here.

It is however now finally looking like a guitar.. nothing is permanently attached yet but it does all fit.

Whew......

Closing the Boxes

What to do on a snow day.. ??  Make some lutherie progress.. Both the Crossover Guitar and Tenor Uke now are closed up and ready for binding prep work once the clamps come off..

Back on 

And all closed up

This one top first

Closed up as well

Ukulele Side Bender

As I said I was not happy with how the Uke sides bent, So I redid them, but before I did I rebuild my bender to a Fox style.

Works great. Should have done this earlier...

Tops Done

So the Ukulele top and the Guitar top are braced and voiced ready to go on the rims.

I'm bending new Ukulele rims as I was not happy with the original, oh well that's the way it goes sometimes.

Hopefully I can get the boxes closed in the next few days.

The guitar top still needs the cut out removed but I am doing that after it is braced and voiced, not sure if that is the correct approach but that's how I'm doing this one.