Come Together

I’ve reached that point with the mandolin where all those bits that I have been working on individually – the neck, the sides, the soundboard and back – all get put together and a real instrument takes shape. Great to see all this happen, but the road to a playable instrument certainly still has it’s hazards!

Finding my Groove

For a number of reasons, I’ve been spending more time than usual working on the mandolin. First off, it’s actually starting to look like a mandolin, so there’s more interest in working on it now than when it was just a bunch of sticks and sawdust. It’s also a very pleasant summer here, rarely getting above about 23 degrees or so (75 or so for those that are Celsius challenged), quite unlike the oven that most people have been living in this summer.