IN THICKNESS AND IN HEALTH...

Today was spent primarily shaping the contours on the both the base

 (finishing from last week) and the top of this "Gibson semi solid to be".

 

Here we see the "Before" "During" and "After" views. What could be so good as working on a "potential guitar", in the sun, on a machine with ne'er a care in the world.  Well lotsa things, I guess but this was a damn good day at the office. The machine in use shall hence forth be known as the Thicknesser.  The guy next door from the battery world shop decided it would be so. It's a variation on the one in the link but the principle is there. Later I used the thicknesser/planer shown in the link to help smooth the pieces of wood attached to the top'n'back (see above left.. the white piece on the guitar shaped bit!!). These pieces of "thicknessed" i.e. levelled wood will help secure the guitar for the chiselling to come. Stay tuned groupies!

Given the nature of todays work a link to "Tales from the Topographic Oceans "  by Yes seemed an obvious choice but hey its a triple album of prog. rock... read the link!!!  The following piece of music is still from Yes, though a solo piece from the far superior and much shorter "Fragile" LP.  There are a few versions around but the studio one is still the definitive version, and hey look at that Roger Dean art. ...Isn't this reason enough to practise your chord changes and fingering: