Mandolin build with @osborneguitars nearly done - just some fret filing, neck carving, then ready... 
More progress, mandolin build with @osborneguitars in Llanidloes. Great walking at the weekend... 
Carving maple back, and alpine spruce with f-holes. Good progress with Richard Osborne... 
My last guitar for a while, off to Maestoso Music in Brighton. I made a carved mandolin back in... 
Red Admiral butterfly in my garden. Just the one. When I was a boy in the 1950’s there were clouds... 
First day French polish on Dennis’s 00. Platymiscium, aka ‘coyote’ wood. Looks pretty foxy to me!...