This Week In a Nutshell

This week at our course, the Mister & I have gotten a lot done. The Mister has his guitar read to lacquer and will do that next week. It's pretty toxic stuff and he'll have to do it outside on a still day.

This is our friend Mike playing Lily, my lovely viola, (named after my grandmother). She's all done (except for the varnish which I'll do in a month or so). I am thrilled with how she looks and the sound is fabulous.

Here she is hanging beside Pearl, the violin I completed last year.

This is the maple for the back of one of the now current projects, a double bass.

Bethany and I worked on getting ready to join the two pieces of spruce for the front.

Here's the front, all clamped and glued.

We're pretty darned proud of ourselves.

Here is the back all glued and clamped too! The pieces of wood are so massive it takes at least three people to join them.

The a bunch of our group got together at our house last night for a party.

I'll post pics of the cello I've started tonight or tomorrow.

And She Shall Be Called Lily

This will be the last update before she's done.

I have a wood burning pen, and I've put her name, Lily, where it can be seen inside the f-hole opposite the one with the label. The week after next is the week long course when I'll be finishing her and playing her in the white. Here she is with a few things left to do before I cut the mortise for the neck.

As soon as she is finished, my next two projects will start. I will hang her on the wall beside her sister, Pearl (the violin I made), so she can easily be taken down and played. I'll take a family picture and post it here.

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This is the front, back and neck for my cello (who will be called Lucy). The flame of the maple is really pretty.

This is my sidekick holding the block of wood for the neck of the double bass we're starting .