More progress

The sides have dried and look real good.No waves on the bent areas. Here I am gluing the tail block. This attaches the two sides together at the bottom of the guitar.













And here is the neck block. It attaches the two sides at the top of the guitar. At some point it will have a dovetail cut into it fot the neck attachment.











In this picture I am gluing the perffed lining on to the top edge of the guitar sides. This provids some ridigity to the sides. Most importantly it provided more glue surface for the top.











Here is the rosewood back and Mario spruce top. These are both top quality wood pieces.










If you notice in the above pictures the sides are too deep. After the perffed linings were dried on the top edge, I flipped everything and cut off the excess with a thin kurffed saw. The next task is to profile the bottom and top edges. This is quite involved since the back goes from 4 inches at the tail block to 3-3/8 inches at the neck block. Of course it's not just a simple taper. Throw into that mix the fact that the top and back are domed and it really gets complex. The back is domed on a 16 foot radius while the top is domed at a 26 foot radius. More to come.