Well wishes for 2025 in and out of the shop!

[Bryan Bear]

I've been without a shop for the last two years (and it will be some time before the new one is set up), so I haven't been doing much. Hopefully in the new year, I'll be checking in here more often and eventually have something to add to discussions again.

I just want to wish you all happy holidays and hopes that the new year treats you all well. What kind of projects do yo all have lined up?

For me, I am waiting for spring to get the new sliding doors installed in my shop space. I hope to install floors late January. Then I can start moving in the workshop stuff and setting up! The next thing will be sorting out where I left off on my half built curly white oak double O.

[Carl Dickinson]

Happy Holidays to you and yours too, Bryan. And everyone else too.
I'm working on a L00 and just did a picture tutorial on layered solid linings that I got the idea from you. Thanks! https://acousticguitarconstructionforum ... php?t=3562

[Bryan Bear]

NIce tute! I like the stepped width idea. I do mine a little different in that I clamp in the first (segmented) layer unglued, then glue layers 2 and 3 over them (not gluing to the reinforcements). Once it is cured, I take the linings out (since they aren't glued to the rim) and plane the inside flat/flush. Then they snap right back in place with glue. Since I plane mine flat, linings have a squarish profile. With your method, I could plane them flush but keep that angle on the inside giving a profile kinda' like more traditional kerfed linings.

[Carl Dickinson]

Sorry about diverting your thread, Bryan.
Hey everybody! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

[Karl Wicklund]

Good wishes and hale body to you and everyone here for this next year! My instrument projects get shuffled around, but between home improvements and gigging, I hope to finally get after a long-planned set of Sutton Hoo-inspired lyres. Made of local hardwoods, one for my music history class, one for my good friend in the SCA, one to screw up!