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Just a bit more work to report lately: Once the top and bottom boards became slightly "convex" via bracing, inspection shows it threw off the formerly good fit of the sides. I will progressively shave the sides until the air gaps all around the perimeter become uniform and vanish: IMG_7296...

Well, the little pinhole scrap pieces maybe worked a little for the Eclipse viewing, but the dark special glasses were better. Here were 2 pictures about 12 minutes apart in high daylight, Indianapolis area: IMG_7274.jpeg IMG_7279.jpeg I didn't show this in build #1 of the thread, but all the bracin...

It's mind-bending! Pinholes! Halos!
A few moments in the shop before the Eclipse mania gets underway here:


Curling some 1/8" x 1/16" walnut strips:

Three of those strips gluing in, concentrically:

BuckeyeDennis wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:17 am The photo with the plane is absolutely gorgeous. Did you make the plane?

Thanks! Actually it's an ECE Emmerich plane that I had got used. It was very beat-up, so I dressed it up by laying thin strips of holm oak into the sides. Similarly, the decorative button is turned from holm oak.

Well, 2 years later -- I've liked that resto-mod, but I got the itch to make a guitar from scratch.

Some random points of progress (red oak rift sawn wood for the sides and back)....

That's very nice! I can well imagine the interlocked grain on that bowl is hard to get smooth.
Nice insertion of the 6 "Infinity Stones"!

Very nice, again! I got that book this year, and I thought your bed was reminiscent of one of his chapters. Great work; let us know how it works out for night-times.

Very nice! "Fit for a King"

Here's to the Wagner steam-generator! I have one, also. For this project, though, I did my final bending with the primary instrument being an up-cycled Goodwill hot hair curling iron. Anyway, sequence more or less as depicted.... for better or worse I've started making another guitar! Yeah, it's oak...

^^^^. this is just the coolest !!!