Now he's marking the outer shape of the "pot", mostly circular but with a few important irregular places, especially where the neck will join and exactly opposite the neck. |
Here he is at one of the ... four? ... bandsaws in his shop (I'm SO green with envy!) doing the rough-cutting into the mostly-circular shape of the final pot. |
Now over to the spindle-sander for final shaping of both the inside and outside of the "pot". "Doc" is very careful of the fine dust of woodworking, always wearing masks while working and also running one of the best dust-collection systems I've yet seen anytime his machines are on. A wise and safe man! |
Here he holds the "pot" and the neck that is of the same wood and already glued and rough-cut to shape, with the slots for the metal frets also cut. |
