I am about to bend the sides for the 000. The blocks are glued to the top and the waist is marked w/green tape.
Here you can see the step I machined in the sides with my jointer. The height of the step is calculated to be the difference between the depth of the dish at the blocks and the depth of the dish at the waist. If it is right, the sides will be parallel to each other at the waist and the extremity of the bouts.
While I was scraping the cutaway side's upper bout area to a thickness more likely to make the relatively extreme bends (.065 as compared to .079, I measured for your edification) Koal insisted on standing under my work board. He is becoming clearer about his role as a shop dog.
