Mandolin dairy day 19 and the new guitar

The best thing by building handmade guitars and mandolins is that I can decide so much myself. If I get inspiration I have the possibility to build what I want. But the customers orders always comes first. Money talks :)
So today I started with gluing the neck and the bridge to a VRB-c-ff (the c stands for cutaway and the ff stands for fanfret). I have worked on this guitar alongside the mandolin and it is now on its way to be delivered. The guitar is having a satin lacquer, both the body and the neck, and together with the fanfret it is going to look really cool. The back and sides are East-Indian rosewood which have some nice red streaks. The top is a sitka spruce with a lot of silk. I will take some more picture of the guitar during the next two days.
Now back to the mandolin, I could not wait to look at it all put together, the neck still needs some attention and therefore it will drag into next week until it gets finished. However, I am really happy with the looks and as I have said before this have inspired me to go on and design a guitar with similar looks. I will use our SRB model (our smallest model type Grand concert) I will use the same woods as the mandolin. Sapele top, back, sides and neck. Herringbone purfling and rosette. Trimmed with some dark rosewood bindings. I have not decided if the first one is going to have an open head or not. What I have decided is that is going to be a 12 fret neck. We have never had this in our range before but now it was the right time to test it on this guitars. The stringlenght will be a short scale 630 mm ( I think it is something like 24-7/8"). I am also going to make the guitars a little deeper than we normally make the SRB. 112 mm at the deepest and 98 mm at the neck. To see that everything works together, I lay the piece on the floor. This way I get a feeling for the instrument.

So I hope you will stay on even if the mandolin will be finished next week and follow the SRB. Next week I will also start up a JRB baritone for Jojje Wadenius. For you who do not know who he is here is a short cv of some of the people he have worked with. Blood ,sweat and tears, Aretha Franklin, Simon and Garfunkel, Steetly Dan and Saturday night live for many years. We are very proud to have Jooje as a customer (this will be his forth Sanden guitar) and friend. He has been playing our guitars for over 15 years.
So stay tuned and see all the amazing instruments that we build.
Michael