Here is the open box showing the newly installed soundport reinforcement and contoured the cutaway block.
The adirondack spruce ladder bracing against the amber pernambuco.
The pernambuco back is mostly quartersawn with just a touch of rift on the outer edges of the lower bout.
The backstrip is mexican kingwood with maple purfling.
Bruce used some dense, stiff, german spruce that has been air drying for 30 years.
A simple, elegant elliptical soundport on the upper bout.
I wish that I could say that I had accomplished this much at my office today!