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Here are a couple bench photos from the crunch time getting this guitar done in time for the La Conner show this past weekend. I strung it up for the first time on a nut and saddle that were just roughed in on Wednesday night, finished it Thursday morning, and had it on display Friday morning.

For anyone who might be interested, I did the leveling, sanding, and buffing of the Endurovar finish after only one day of cure time because of the time crunch. It worked just fine.

This guitar fought back all the way through. Some were related to gluing cocobolo. Most were little things that had not happened before. When I was getting the tuners ready to install, I bobbled a washer that goes under the tuner nut. It bounced on the benchtop and then directly into the trash bag on the floor. Fortunately, I had a second tuner set to steal a washer from. Fishing that washer out of the trash is still on my list.

A satisfying moment was when fingerstyle player Mark Hanson played the guitar in a mini-concert to demo it. Before he launched into the first song, he happened to pick the low E string and a loud "oooh" went up from the audience and the sound guy commented "That's a different animal!".