Thanks guys. I'll take your word for it that it's the builder not the materials.
So a little more progress shots on the FS. First up, we did get the top glued on to the box, so you get a picture of our boat of clamps.
After we did that, we did a lot of barely essential steps like trim the top down to the sides, level the sides flat, and rout for purfling and bindings. The next step worth taking a picture of is of masking tape holding purling lines on.
And of course why have a picture of just weak masking tape when you can have one as well of strong binding tape. It's 80+ degrees here so we have to work on beach towels.
And why not one more pic of Steve using and old fashioned piece of steel to scrape down the bindings.
Thanks for following the progress.