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Nowhere near yours, but it is a bit of fun!
The back is spheroided and braced:
The maple/walnut/maple neck blank has been glued together and rough cut:
A 1" heel extension has been cut from offcut and grain-matched:
The macassar fretboard has been radiused...
...and slotted
The top has been glued:
And a bridge has been carved out of a block of ebony:
Loads still to do, but it's beginning to look like a guitar bouzouki now
(Build's looking good BTW)
Cleaned up, the fretboard is now ready for tapering and fretting:
Fingers crossed!
The bindings will be rounded once I've carved the neck, but you can see the overhang that should prevent the long-term sharp fret-end problem:
And the demarcation stripe from the binding should show nicely once the neck is carved:
And, of course, the obligatory mock up
They are saw cuts. But because I glue the inlays in with epoxy mixed with the macassar sanding dust, I just fill the chamber with coloured epoxy and press the inlay down into it. The epoxy squeezes out filling any gaps round the edges, but also fully filling those slots. That's what was going on here. On the bottom diamond, you can see the squeeze-out at one of the slots (and my pot of sanding dust. Handy tip - whenever you sand any wood, always keep some of the sanding dust ):