Fall archtop guitar projects- MEGA post!!!

So ok, I admit…  this post is outrageously fat and a bit overwhelming…. there is SO much going on in the shop. All the early fall guitars are in paint, late fall guitars are fully under construction. My assistant Gio has a training project thats going great. I am doing a couple prototype instruments that will have detachable necks (at the request of Gilad Hekselman who’s life would become way easier with a good travel archtop). I even have a circa 2007 7-string archtop that is “new old stock” nearing its completion finally. I made some extra parts wayyyy back when that I recently found in a box (!) that is shaping up to be a nice one!