This update will be mostly about bracing the top and the back. But first, here is the picture of the custom jig for this new Florentine cutaway design. Double Sided.
And a few people asked to see pictures of the Rosette inlay work. So here you go.
Then we started drawing out the bracing pattern and roughing out the right dimensions from quartersawn Swiss spruce billets.
In the background you could see the Spruce center strip drying on the inside of the back of the guitar. Here's a close-up.
The bracings have been dimensioned roughly, and now only need to be shaped
After we took the back out of the clamps, we could test fit the back bracings. As you can see the bracings are slightly radiused so the back will be radiused, which will improve the sound quality and better enable the back to handle stresses.
Before clamping up the back with the bracing, here's a picture of the back after the epoxy has been sanded it off.
