Monday, December 17, 2012

Fretting up

I've now tied the frets and glued on the small frets on the body.  Here are some pics of the finished lute.






Now that I have a playable instrument (whew!) I can spend more time focusing on details and making a nice instrument with the foresight I've gained from this project. 

I have already selected the woods for the shell of the next lute.  It will not have spacers between the ribs but will have alternating zebra wood and wenge (pictured below).  I also plan on using the extended pegbox design instead of a bass rider for this instrument.  I will keep a much more detailed blog on the progress of that instrument.



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