July 18, 2012

9:00am - 1:30pm

Here it is! The extension is filed and sanded and we're ready to glue the fingerboard on.

This is a shot of the fingerboard glued and clamped onto the neck.

Also stuck a couple of wedges in the tail end of the fingerboard to make sure it had contact with the extension piece.

This is a shot of Sam. He's building his first instrument which is a viola. In this shot he's scraping the inside of the back.

While waiting for my fingerboard to dry, I fitted the bridge to the contour mandolin body. This is done by placing 100 grit sandpaper on the body (face up!) and moving the bridge side to side.

This is the bridge fitted to the body. Note that the bridge on a mandolin does not get attached to the body. It's simple held in place by the strings.

Here's a shot of the mandolin with the bridge attached.