Today was all about finding the true center and trimming the Bass wood glue surface to final dimension. The picture shows the rim ready for tomorrows procedure of routing in the rabit for the sound plates. You can see a little peninsula of extra wood where the neck joint will be. This need for this extra wood will become more clear when I rout in the neck joint.
It was a lot of careful work to get to this point. I have to think of the final form and reverse engineer and anticipate for all kinds of considerations. For example, the rabit for the sound plates is 1/4" and then there will be multiple binding. I have not shown it but there is a number of patterns and one master jig that had to be made to get to this point. Every guitar has been a true one off. Every guitar has it's own unique tooling. Every guitar is just as much a sculpture as it is a guitar. No two guitars will ever be exactly alike and I think that's pretty special.
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