Anyway, on to what's new.
Carved a bridge today...
Reset the truss rods too. The first time I tried to set the rods, I used 60-minute epoxy. Not a bad decision in itself, but I had to mix the stuff, which means that after several days of setting, there wasn't really any setting going on. So, I pulled the rods out, gouged out all of the unset epoxy goo, and cleaned out the truss rod trenches with a router (RIP, router bit). The second time around, I used the same brand, but with the premixing nozzle and 5-minute set time. Much easier, except that the nozzle flew off the epoxy tube while I was setting the second rod, so yet another trip to Home Depot for more epoxy. This time, the 5-minute stuff was sold out, so I took my chances on the 1-minute set time. I was mostly successful. I'll have a little grinding to do before I set the fingerboard, but fortunately not much.
A week or two ago, I laminated the body together, using some of the leftover rosewood, some of the zebrawood fingerboard that I didn't use for the electric cello project, a little strip of purpleheart, and some nice-looking curly maple (one of the two pieces is REALLY curly).
Today, I sanded a bevel into the body, to match up the various pieces of the laminate. Mostly done on that... Notice the swoop in the upper face plate.
Fits into the fingerboard rather nicely...
