Fret boards

Working on the fret boards. They are all side bound which means they have a black stripe on the side of the binding as opposed to a stripe on the top edge. I need to drill into the binding for the side dots and I have my drill press set up for that. The pearl dots are already installed in the fret board. When this is completed I'm going to glue the boards to the necks and finish shaping the necks to the boards. I'm going to put the frets in as a last step which will insure a perfectly flat board and require little fret leveling after the fact.

The bodies

   

The bench.

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Dick Hutchings