CC & THE AMOST FINISHED ARTICLE!!

 All that remained to be done at this point was to make a couple of cover plates for those slots in the twin headstocks giving access to the truss rods.

Plus a final tweak on the action - so simple with bolted necks!

Poor old CC - I give him hell for the roughness of his finishing and for his super-cautious engineering...

BUT - the sound is absolutely glorious - throughout the five octaves  from the bottom E of the bass neck to the top E of the guitar neck, each note sings true - I gave it a good work out & couldn't find a wolf note anywhere nor a dead spot...

It is alarmingly loud & beautifully balanced.

The Koto neck holds its own & sounds suitably Japanese...

All in all a triumph :o)