A master wood worker, as opposed to a hobbyist!
I love your patience and care, (that I so sorely lack, in my own wood "mangling").
Awesome thread Tony.
Great work all around.
Thanks guys. Here's another image from this morning's session out in the garage. I needed to true the face of the kiku headstock, and rather than take it to my disc sander, I decided to do it the old-fashioned way, with a block plane and a square. Nothing quite like the hiss of a plane as it peels away fine curls of wood from a workpiece.It's just fascinating to see some raw blocks of wood step by step metamorphosing into a beauty of an instrument.
This is what we call Handwerkskunst in German (craftsmanship). Keep going and sharing the transformation of matter into art, Tony.