Top bracing, side bending, fretwire bender and 13 fretter neck

The Redwood top of Sami's guitar has now been braced and the quilted Sapele sides bent. Looking good, progressing with a nice pace.

In the bottom there are pics of my 13-fret neck-to-be with roughed out headstock, and below that is a picture of the fret wire bender I made out of old (dusty&rusty) skateboard bearings, an old birch wood bed leg and three bolts and washers. It's turned with a 10mm wrench and works like a charm for 0€ product!

Adirondack spruce only! 

LMII has kindly labeled every item they supplied, 

so I won't accidentally build an adirondack neck

 and brace the top with neck wood.

Coming together. Just add some glue here and there...

X-brace crossing notched...

…for a perfect, snug fit.

Gluing the major braces in go-bar

Shaping the first set of braces before gluing down the rest

More bracing!

Shaped and scalloped, only short of bridge plate

Adirondack spruce was a delight to carve!

Side before bending in a boiling water

my hi-tech side bending rig

the ready bent side.
 This set of Sapele was very easy to bend. 

The other side.
Enough leftover for a future head plate veneer!

Here is the headstock of a 13-fretter I've been making
 for myself for quite some time.
Waverly 3-on a plate tuning machines
with snakewood knobs look very nice! 

Headplate veneer is a merge of Madagascar
rosewood and koa, with black and white
 maple sandwiched under.

The spanish cedar neck center strip
is walnut with b/w stripes.

Here is the fret wire bender.
Looking bad, working like a charm!
If you want to learn to build it
(the pic itself is quite self-explanatory),
 contact me or just google fret wire bender.