Bridge clamped

Andy's small, minimalistic and extremely stylish bridge is clamped
with my small, minimalistic and extremely stylish bridge clamps.
They're from New York, even.

The uke is a few intense hours (and a couple of days worth of drying
time) from being done!

Wood for a new tenor

Alli's tenor will be made from alder. The board I cut up this weekend
is planed, the halves for the back and the soundboard are joined and
then planed some more. They were slightly uneven from resawing, and I
don't want to push my thickness sander to far over the limit.

Tonight I also found some more cherry in the shop, some soundboard
halves I forgot about. At least one more piccolo of cherry to
accompany the ones I prepared alder for.

And to those of you who are waiting: patience my friends. Things
happen all the time even if everything doesn't make it to the blog.

Wood resawn, mould done

So out of a board of alder I got these sides, tops and backs. And a
few neck blanks for piccolos. Alli's tenor neck has been laminated and
roughly shaped. It still has the length to enable a spanish heel but I
might cut it and bolt it. My new mould for the piccolo bodies is
almost done, just need to sand the inside a bit with... you guessed it
- the MRSG.

I really should have gotten a new blade for the bandsaw though. The
blade I used now drifted and I wasted a lot of wood. And the pieces I
got need a whole lot of tough love in the thickness sander. I mean, a
lot.