Another weekend comes and just now I realized, I haven't posted anything in 5 days. It isn't unusual. However, I've been engaging in comments and answering some other and keeping myself busy.
I started making another Venezuelan Cuatro. But I've been more focused in doing the work than taking pictures. My train of thought on this is the fact that previous posts (soon to be collections) have all the steps and elements of didactic material for anyone interesting in a thorough photo session in the making of an instrument. That's time to relax and keep my head and hands at work.
It took me 3 days to finish this neck. Carving the heel is still a big load of work because I'm doing it with a knife. It the future, I'd love to have a bench jigsaw. That way I could speed up the process even further. Why not having a lot of necks ready to go?
In the other photo, I have both sound board and back of this instrument. It takes less time to get them ready since I had glued then previously. Also, yesterday night, I got some insight into the construction of instrument by a nice friend who lives in Peru. I even got some pictures and voice messages explaining somethings that I already knew, but haven't put into practice. Needless to say, this is a better insight than that pesky group.
And when I thought my day couldn't be better after getting a lot of work done. Well, nature gave me this filter to itself. The sunset with clouds gave us this light. It was wonderful! However, it also meant I needed to get stuff under the roof since it was going to rain. And lo, rained it did. The light effects were part of the 41st tropical storm of the season.
There was also the bad part of the night when lightning hit something and there was a power cut for more than an hour. But it came back later and I was able to get more engagement out of our #weekend-engagement activity. So, everything worked well in the end.
I hope you started your weekend with good footing!