Bill has finished scraping the recurve and tuning the top now that it is purfled and bound. He has bound the "box" with a combination of b/w/b/w and
Cocobolo. The gentle arch of the carved
Carpathian Spruce top and recurve can be seen in these two images.
Here's some shots of the body back and sides displaying the beautiful figure of fiddleback
Honduran Mahogany against the purfling and
Cocobolo binding. The change in the recurve in the venetian cutaway is reflected in the binding profile.
The rough carved, one-piece fiddleback
Honduran Mahogany neck is seen mid-process, routed to accommodate a truss rod and carbon fiber reinforcement. The
Ebony fingerboard can be seen also bound in
Cocobolo.
