Linings

Yesterday I bent solid basswood linings for the first of the pair I'm
building. It went very smoothly, the basswood got all rubbery on the
bending pipe. In the pic the linings are held in place, but they're
not glued yet.

Now I'm actually off to play a sort of gig. With audience. I'm nervous.

Sides and blocks

After work I managed to sand the sides to the final thickness, bend
them both with good results and then cut them to length and glue in
the blocks. Whew. At least it is so much easier after the first one.

I tend not to count the tenors I made, sopranos are very different to
me. And the tenors I built with a spanish neck, so things were in
another order.

But I'm very pleased with the tenors as well, I will build more of
those.

Thickness sander 3

And guess what. It works! I put on 120-grit paper and sent a side
through, a piece that was impossible to plane due to grain direction.
And after a few passes it's smooth as a middle aged man's chin and
almost thin enough to bend. This is the best machine I've ever built.