About 2:45 p.m. :
The first thing I did was to trim the back center seam reinforcment strip so it would butt up against the neck block and the tail block. Then, taping the back down at the neck and tail ends, so that the centerlines matched with the sides centerlines, I marked where the back's braces hit the sides, and routed out (with the Dremel) the pockets in the kerfing for the ends of the back braces.
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And here I am gluing the back onto the sides in the go-bar deck, using the clamping caul pictured above.
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I LOVE MY GO-BAR DECK: (1) The fact that its upper deck is adjustable with four pipe clamp thingies means that I was able to make the upper deck one height for the lower bout of the back (which is higher than the neck end), and a lower height for the upper bout. This allowed me to have even clamping pressure all around, without having to use extra blocks at the neck end. And (2) The fact that it swivels out and around means that I am easily able to get to all the areas as I'm applying the go-bar sticks. It also makes it super-easy to check and adjust the neck and tail centerlines, so it all lines up properly.
If you haven't seen it yet, here's a link to a little video I made (quite a while ago, when I had longer hair!) about my modifications to the go-bar deck. |
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