....... and I'm back

After several years of lapse, and other cut-in projects, I've managed to pogress through 2013 until now by planing and sizing the ebony fingerboard. The frets were cut (something I [pardon the pun] fretted about getting right for a long time), until yesterday final fitted and glued the fingerboard in place.

There was a little block of wood I'd fashioned as a glue clamp for the inside body-to-19th fret clamping vise. It was right were I left it a few years a go, so put it to good use.

Here are a couple of shots of the critical last hurdle.

Now, onto shaping the neck, adding the frets and making a bridge. 

I can almost hear it playing an old Beatles tune....