The workshop is closed for the New Year holiday, and I always take this as an opportunity to close out the records of the old year and prepare the files for the upcoming year. It is quiet in the shop while everyone is home for the day, so I can catch up on some jobs without interruption. One task was to put the last two struts on a lute front, the short ones that support the rose. I always enjoy gluing those in place, as they represent a transition between the completion of the front and the assembling of the body. When they are dry, I can trim the struts to fit into the back, and after that task, it is a short time to have the instrument together. Those last two little struts are quite a milestone for me.