I am declaring the finish on the L-00 done...at least for now. After slaving on it over the last few weeks and suffering the inequities of errant dust, I reminded myself that the purpose of this particular guitar was that I have something around that my hard picking friends can thrash on instead of despoiling my delicate nylon string gutiars.

So, with that personal edict in mind I glued on the bridge and bolted the neck on to start checking and refining its alignment. While it was all together I decided to get a couple of glamour shouts of it sitting in the canoe.

All of the thwarts and seats are made for the Cruiser in Walnut. Here they are with the first coat of varnish.

Some colour has come into the shop this week! The paint on the Boreal is all done, got her turned over and got the last two coats of varnish on the gunnels. On Monday I will bolt the thwarts back in and get the stm band prepared and installed. All that is left is to put the seat in and they are being caned while all the rest of the work is getting done.

If you squint you can see in the background (second photo) that the Cruiser has its outwales on, that they are sanded and have the first two coats of varnish on.

Been working the L-00 along. On the classical guitars I apply a shellac finish in a French Polish. On this gutiar I am trying a varnish finish. A number of guitar makers are turning to varnish as a finish as Nitrocellulouse laquer is risky to use for small shops, what with all of those nasty chemicals it requires.

Anyway that you look at it, applying a finish is a long, tedious, and challenging process. I hate factory guitars for setting public expectations to evaluate a guitar on how perfect the finish is.

Anyway, the Mahogany and Spruce is looking lovely.

Sanding the filler on the Boreal "Y" stern. The keel is just about to be put on, then paint, paint, paint!

The Cruiser is in filler to the left and is waiting while the filler cures.

The trim is on the Boreal and the Cruiser has three coats of varish. The Cruiser is now faired and sanded on the exterior and is now ready for canvas. Its actaully already in canvas for a week now, but I'm behind in posting! I'll get two more coats of varnish on yet.

The Boreal is now in canvas.

One down, one to go...