Here's the inlay, all sanded down:
The next thing I ended up doing was to make a "backstrap" (I just learned today that's what you call it) — a veneer overlay on the back of the peghead. Some people do this for looks, others to thicken up a somewhat too-thin peghead. The latter was my reason. In sanding the back of the peghead, I had sanded it a little too thin, about 1/16" too thin. It would have been okay, but the more I looked at it, the more I wasn't happy with it. So I bent a piece of rosewood to match the curved volute I had already sanded into the back of my peghead (bending it to match was no easy task!), glued it on, and trimmed it up. Here it is:
Later, when I use the belt sander to sand the rounded shape of the volute, it will look much better. Oh, yeah — and I still need to drill the tuner holes into the backstrap wood.
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Finally, I glued the fingerboard onto the neck:
I guess I'll start carving tomorrow! |
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