well i have to note this milestone. i now have 100 members/followers of my photos and postings. thank you all for your comments, (i alchoices like those), and for sticking with me through my ramblings and comings and goings .. there is a huge community of woodworkers now, much, much larger than when i started almost 40 years ago. while i sometimes wish we might have had the internet when i was learning, im also glad to have figured out a lot of things on my own. this blog is my attempt to give a little back to the community i work in and spread the things around that i have learned ( and am still learning) over the years. i hope you are all having the same spring weather thats in our forecast for the next few days ... time to get out the convertible here and its not even the middle of march yet ... again, thank you all ... dan
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well, seeders instruments banjo #8 arrived in northern ireland on friday ... it was wills first international website order. the shipping was a concern at first, but the US Postal Service handled it flawlessly. it left tuesday afternoon ... 3, or 2? days ... reasonable cost considering ...
it sounds great, as you can hear on this one minute clip of will playing and singing. link to the video here ... 
i didnt get a lot of progress pictures. it got itself together and out the door mostly on evenings and weekends and went without a hitch, so i only occasionally glimpsed the progress as it went along.
great saturn peg head inlay. that pot and drawing on the right is his next project
regular old hard oil finish ... 6 or seven coats i think ...
the whole deal
and the label
great combo of woods and restrained design collaboration. i liked the no fretboard inlays much more than i expected to ...
back view
stay tuned for more ... ha ha ...
