I’m going to start filling in for Stan on posting pictures just to help out a little. Progress is being made on getting this more into guitar shape. First picture is all the internal bracing glued in - waiting to be carved.
Second shot is of fitting the back. This allows us to line up the back braces and routing pockets in the lining for them to sit in.
And the third image is the side braces being glued into the rim assembly. Originally we were going to use fabric strips for this step, but we couldn’t find any that quite did it for Stan. That’s ok, he had supplied us with some redwood from a well loved record cabinet that had been disassembled. So I cut side braces from his redwood (which is what we had made the cutaway lamination from) and used it instead.
More pics to come as we continue.