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Todd:

Thanks! It was pretty "seat of the pants", as were many of the steps on this first one!

I'm going to do the neck on the second one this weekend, with volute - I'll take pics of the process.

Thanks Arnt! If the F5 I'm working on turns out a 1/10th as good as the one you recently posted, I'll be a truly happy boy!

-Mark

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WOW, How many projects you got goin' at the same time Mark?

Serge:

My job has taught me to be a pretty efficient multi-tasker. I am a project manager for a database project for the entire State of Montana. I am also the senior software developer, database designer, lead tech geek, chair of the committee that instigated the project and administrative assistant to myself! I wear a lot of hats at work. Hey, we're a poor state, we gotta make due with what we have.

Anyway to answer your question.

1. First dread still needs final set up - letting settle in a bit before I tweak it.

2. Dread number two - EIR and Carpathian - Box is done and ready to have mortise cut, neck blank is roughed and the trussrod slot is cut, FB radiused and fretted.

3. Dread number three - Flamed Mahogany and Carpathian - Box is done, will try to bind this weekend.

4. Dread number four - EIR and Carpathian Herringbone - Sides bent, blocks and kerffed lining in.

5. F5 Mando - Rims bent, blocks and kerffed lining in, plates are thicknessed and ready to be contoured, neck roughed out.

Yeah, I got a few irons in the fire, but that's the way I work best.

-Mark


EDIT: Just for the record, I have no social life... Mark Tripp38912.0061342593

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Thanks Mark,you just got my head spinnin' by reading all these fine projects goin' all at once, where do you find time to build jigs in all of that!

Make sure to make us see that mandolin progress once in a while, i'm a mandolin freak ya know!!!

For the record, i wish i had no social life either, i'd then be able to catcth up with ya buddy!

Keep it up!!!Serge Poirier38912.0335300926