Mandolins #2 and #3

I really got a lot done today. I carved the shape of the recurve on both tops and both backs, next I'll need to smooth the recurve area. This involves smoothing the transitions from the recurve to the rest of the plate, and smoothing the torn spruce on the tops. This is caused by scraping against the grain, which I find can't be helped at the bottom of the mandolin top. After that, there are more tool marks to smooth, and then it's thinning the plates to specs using my homemade thickness gauge. It's refreshing how well things are moving along. I think it's possible I could be working on tone bars before the weekend is over.

Almost forgot, I worked on removing the peghead overlay from one of the headstocks. still needs quite a bit of cleaning up, as you can see.