I've started bending sides and getting everything together for them. I like these initial stages of putting a guitar together because it all goes comparably quickly in the beginning. That's the thing about building a guitar, you start out fast and then it goes slower and slower as you close in on finishing it. Also, because of all the accumulating time you're investing the consequences of messing up become greater and greater.
Here is a side being bent:
While that's going on I've started sorting out the trim wood. Here I am cutting a sequence of binding strips:
The advantage of cutting you own binding strips is you know the colors will match and because you've cut them in sequence, you can book match them when they are installed. This shows up particularly back where the binding strips meet up at the end graft. The grain lines will mate up nicely this way. A miniscule detail I know but, why not?
More to come!
Mark