Post a picture of what's on your bench?

[Harley Marty]

The picture by Harley Marty of the refretted mandolin looks like it now has fan frets, so the bridge is not necessarily off in the photo, but angled to compensate for the fan fretting, Charles E. But I might be imagining this - look especially at the angles of the higher frets.

Yes John. The bridge suits the new fan-frets. The nut remains in the same place which makes it more comfortable (less strain) playing barre chords on the lower frets

[Jeff Mando]

Many photos exist of Eddie Cochran with his bridge at a rakish angle...seems wrong, but Eddie Cochran should know....

[soliver]

Working on finishing up the rim, including installing a keystone piece to match the Sapele strip on the back. Planning to glue on the top on the coming days.

[soliver]

Or maybe I'll just stay up too late and do it tonight.

[Steve Sorensen]

A nice shot of a new inlay for the V5 that I am prepping for finishing --



Steve

[Skip Kelley]

Steve, that is classic! Nice work brother!

[sunburst]

Just because I haven't posted anything here for a while, here's one of the things I'm working on.
The mahogany that this neck blank is made from is not wide enough for a peghead. This guitar is to have a slotted peghead so I didn't want to glue "ears" to the sides, and instead I went back in time for this V joint. This gives me straight grain in the peghead (rather than the severe run out in the peghead of a one-piece neck) while hiding glue lines through design and construction features. The "diamond volute" will be carved later.


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The same guitar has this "stellar" rosette!

[tree]

Your joinery is indistinguishable from perfect, John, at least in a photo on the internet. I'm trying to imagine me having to lay out that joint and it blows all the geometry circuits in my head.

[sunburst]

Clark, my first test on scrap went pretty well, and I left plenty of material and proceeded slowly. It's one of those things where experience sure can really speed things up!

[Jeff Mando]

beautiful work, John!

[Steve Sorensen]

As is apparent from many of the builder posts on this string, we seem to be detail-obsessed personalities ... in the best way!

I guess that is why I am so tickled by the little V5 logo detail on this pickguard --



Steve