Making some progress--finally

My guitar-Sensei, Larry has been helping me get caught up on my guitar.
He's very knowledgeable about all things guitar and my "craftsmanship" is getting better with his help.
I now have the sides glued together and the linings glued. I have the back "indexed" and will get the front done tomorrow.
The back is braced. I put a backseam brace on. The originals didn't have them, they put the seam brace on the top; probably to cover bad joinery or to add strength to the pilage. Since I'm not doing one, it's not needed (i hope).


I cut the top braces (again) and sanded them on a 20' sanding dish.
The top is in the "go-bar-deck". This is cool, It's a giant clamp.





The neck is rough cut and routed for a truss rod. Tomorrow I hope to cut the neck heel.


This weekend, I'm going over to Larry's and he is going to help me plane it down and cut it to width. It really does help having someone who knows what they are doing.

The rosette of Doom!

I have been stressed about doing the rosette. My first attempt was terrible, the templates were difficult etc. It finally came together and I was all set to drop it into the top. But before that, I would have to rout a channel in the top of the guitar. My router skills suck. I practiced on some scrap wood, but not nearly enough. rrrrrgh.












This is why I can't get anything done...
The cats found it infinitely interesting for me to work at the kitchen table. If I would get up, one of them would walk over and sit on whatever I am working on. Then the other would come and sit down on it as well. They were rather irritated at being moved. Doogie knocked tools and pencils onto the floor.

Neemo likes to smash down what ever I'm working on.





Doogie tried to nap on my plans.


It's good to have such close supervision.