Only the lacquer break showing now.

Cured 24 hrs.

All inlay will be pressed and sealed.

All frets out and ready to proceed.

Ready to level/Crown/Polish.

1st coat of clear.

Ready to polish/wax.

Kershner pat. dates.

This is the same as dermabrasion, dead skin removal.

Nice, a little stain in the pick attack area.

Burnishing down with wax paper to recreate a moisture barrier.

Pinning the heel, and re-finishing the dowel.

Recessed, glued into place.

Ready to mount the neck.

Its is a very positive fitting attachment.

It pushes both directions.

Blacking the lines in the inlay.

It is for the spanner nuts on the pegs.

This armrest pulls up and off to load strings.

Pulling the armrest to string it up.

A few coats of nitro left to do.

Settling in before final adjustments.

Tuned CGDA, can tune GDAE

Clean break, easy fix, it will be stronger than the original.

Final squeeze after wiping excess.

Will re-fret with Stew Mac 147 wire.

Coming up the fret line.

Compression fretting with 147 Stew mac wire.

Stripped and ready for clear nitro finish.

5 coats to go.

Really nice condition.

I will use a factory skin head, after cleaning.

Taking it off of the surface, you can see the results.

Sheilding while I do the edges.

Neck finish complete.

1/16" solid brass, it will go through the dowel and up into the neck.

A dot of black CA and then some drop fills of lacquer.

Now for the nifty neck hardware.

Holding it up into its slot and tightening.

The best brass lacquer ever made. 4 coats on the armrest.

Showing what these notches and slot do.

Resonator still taking clear coats.

Ready to dress frets.

Cool grain pattern on the resonator.

At tension, skin is taut.