This will become a Solid Body Electric Octave Mandolin with a Seraph body shape. The body will be Cherry with strips of Rosewood. I glued up the block for the body, cut it to shape, sanded and routered for the neck, pickups, and controls. This instrument will be equipped with twin stacked coil EMG pickups. It will have tone, volume, and a 3-way selector switch. Also, this will become an 8-string model. The neck is Cherry, and in the primitiveness of my shop I always shape necks with a rasp. The fret board is Rosewood, and I always cut my fret grooves one at a time, just to see if I still can. This neck is routered and fitted with an adjustable truss rod. With the neck and fret board complete; I glued the two together. After the glue dried, I overlaid the headstock with Rosewood to match the fret board. I applied a sealer coat to the body and neck assembly and sanded both. Finally, I got both parts down to the paint house and sprayed the finish. After allowing a week for curing, I made final assembly.
