The next thing I did today was to sketch out the bracing plan on my top, stupidly forgetting that it will be all sanded away later, after I put the rosette in and thickness-sand the top to its final thickness!!! (I've made this mistake before.) Oh, well — no big, big deal, as it still gave me something to check my braces against.
I cut my brace stock today from some Carpathian spruce I had on hand. Here are the dimensions of the braces:
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X-braces, tone bar, finger braces — 1/4" wide, 1/2" tall
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Upper face brace — 1/2" wide, 5/8" tall
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soundhole braces — 3/8" wide, 1/8" tall
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Upper transverse graft — 1" wide, 1/8" tall
That's it for today. I'm still waiting on the Zip-Flex strips. So....if they don't come tomorrow in the mail, I guess I'll get started on the sides.
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