I have a final post for this guitar build thread. The guitar is sold and the customer asked for a sound port. I have to admit it is hair raising to push a drill bit into a finished guitar!
This first picture is the clamp I made to apply pressure to the reinforcement plate I installed before cutting the sound port out to full size.
I put a layer of Maple in the reinforcement plate so we would have a purfling line;
Here it is all finished and off to it's new home;
Thanks for viewing!
Mark