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Anyway, the varnish stage has started for the body. I won't do regular posts of the progress because it is literally like watching paint dry, but probably worth a preview in terms of the first coat. As usual, I use good old fashioned Ronseal Hardglaze Polyurethane Varnish brushed on with an artist's water-colour fan brush.
Here's the front after its first sealing coat:
And the back and sides after their first coat:
It's going to be pretty
- lots of trial string fits and neck angle tweaks to get the action in the right region
- final heel and neck carves
- magnet-attached trussrod cover fitted
- luminlay side dots fitted
- temporary saddle fitted to determine final action height and intonation
Here are the luminlays ready for the final neck and heel carve:
And here is the bouzouki, fully playable, prior to tomorrows disassembly and the start of the final varnish stages on the body and the start of the neck finishing process:
So, all being well, it should be ready to pass over to P in a couple of weeks once the finish has fully hardened
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It sounds great. I've done another couple of soundclips now the fretboard action is in the right place but since a recent Windows 10 update (Microsoft - the company that seems to have a unique mission of bringing out great products with regular updates...with every update giving you something worse than you had before!), my modern and good spec'd PC is now having trouble reading an SD card.
I shall battle on and try to extract the data. Tish...what was I thinking to record something onto a recorder that uses something as obsolete as an SD card! That's sooooooo 20th century!
Finally managed to get the soundfile out of my little Zoom mic recorder. Given that 2 months ago I didn't even know what a guitar bouzouki was, I was going to call this little demo piece, "A Tune To Play If You Are Playing Something You Don't Know How To Play" but it wouldn't fit in the Soundcloud text box. So, instead, I've called it "Ignorance is Bliss".
As always with acoustics, best heard through headphones:
https://soundcloud.com/andy-rogers-6/ignorance-is-bliss/s-XWxXhI6MwvF