Guitar building

Bindings taped and drying with the neck in infancy on the right

Bindings roughly levelled and ready for sanding

Handmade chevron binding and purfling

Figured Otway Blackwood back and sides

Mulga headstock with mother-of-pearl 'stache' inlay ready to glue

Headstock ready for sanding. Relic brass tuners.

Nigel's "high tech" neck tenon jig - gets it right the first time

Shaping the neck heel

Guitar rough shaped neck heel

The neck join

Preparing rosewood fingerboard for fret slots

Cutting fret slots

Another "high tech" jig

Looking more like a guitar

Two of Nigel's instruments in the Wearne Stable