Sometimes it really pays to have the right tool.  But I get ahead of myself. Finally got into the shop after a couple weeks of being "under the weather".  I decided to create a new bridge [...]

Did some basic clean-up work, the most important being adding some accent to the hand-cut white mother-of-pearl inlay.  Inlay against Koa is "ok" and you can see how it looked in the previous post.  I [...]

The past couple of days have been spent finishing the neck.  Very tedious days making lots of dust. First, glued in the mother-of-pearl honu and, once set, polished it up. I'll be using a spoon [...]