Friday, January 23, 2015

Progress - Slow, But Relentless

Despite my slow progress, I'm pretty happy with the way this one's shaping up and amazed - yet again - how completing the gluing of the bindings restores the resonance that's lost when the channels for the purfling and bindings are routed.



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Pete
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Location: Perth WA, Australia

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