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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Return to AMATEUR LUTHIER HOME PAGE Planning, Jointing and Joining the Plates, Thicknessing the Plates, Back Braces, Center Strip, Tapping the Back, Planning the Rosette Gluing the Rosette, Scraping and Sanding the Rosette, Soundhole Reinforcement Donut, Cutting the Soundhole, Top Bridge Plate and Bracing Cutting and Bending the Sides, Neck and Tail Blocks, Gluing the Blocks to the Rims Bolt Holes, Kerfing, Label, Sanding the Kerfing, Gluing the Back to the Rims Gluing the Top to the Rims, Trimming the Overhang, Thumping the Box, Seal Coat, Bending the Binding, Routing the Binding Channels Routing the Purfling Ledges, Mitered End Wedge, Gluing Binding and Purfling, Scraping the Bindings and Purflings, An Easy Way to Sharpen a Scraper The Box is Done, Neck and Fingerboard, Threaded Inserts in Heel, Peghead Template, Robo-sanding the Peghead Belt-Sanding the Volute, Fingerboard Position Dots, Fretting, Side Dots, Cutting Peghead Inlay Routing Peghead Inlay Cavity, Gluing in Peghead Inlay, Scraping and Sanding the Inlay, Trimming the Neck, Fitting the Neck to the Body More Fitting of the Neck to the Body, Gluing Fingerboard to the Neck, Using the Simple Centerline Finder, Shaping the Neck with the Belt-Sander, Finish-Carving the Neck Finish-Sanding, Seal Coats, Pore-Filling, French-Polishing Begins, Ebonizing the Rosewood Bridge, More French-Polishing Modifying the Simple Centerline Finder, First Level-Sanding, More French-Polishing Sessions, Filing Gaps with Superglue, Wet-Sanding Three More French-Polishing Sessions and a Five-Day Wait, What's Left to Do, The Current Shine (before the final polishing), Polishing with Novus #2, Gluing on the Neck, Positioning and Gluing on the Bridge, Fret Leveling and Crowning Dressing the Fret Ends, Cleaning Up the Fingerboard, Attaching the Tuners, Nut and Saddle Still Working on the Final Setup, Finalizing the Nut Action