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  3. Bending
  4. And More Bending!
  5. Neck Block & Kerfing
  6. Top, Back, & Kerfed Side Set
  7. Side Reinforcements & Rosette Channel
  8. Braces
  9. Even More Braces!
  10. The Soundbox
  11. Binding & Neck
  12. The Neck, Continued
  13. Finish Carving the Neck
  14. Peghead Inlay
  15. Finishing!!!
  16. Rubbing Out the Finish & Gluing the Neck and Bridge
  17. Leveling Frets, Nut & Saddle Work, and Stringing Her Up!!!
  18. The Final Product!!!

(last updated 8/19/06)

 

Tuesday, July 4th (Part Two):

After I finished gluing in the rosette, I set about making my braces. I had been generously given a free billet of Carpathian spruce brace stock, when I had bought my Carpathian spruce top from Colonial Tonewoods. So, today, I went to my bandsaw and table saw and cut up the braces for the back and top. After that was all done, I glued on the back braces:

 

  

Wednesday, July 5th :

Here's the soundhole rosette, after I have scraped and sanded it down:

 

 

 

 

 

Gluing on braces:

Here, the rosewood bridge plate, the upper face brace, and the upper transverse graft:

  

Here, the soundhole braces:

 

Here is the soundboard so far:

 

 

 

Here is the back, after I have shaped the back braces:

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