Bracing the back

Here's a few photos showing my back bracing procedure.

The figured sapele back and sides look very very nice with a spit coat of shellac on.

With a little shellac, Sapele came to life!

Back braces squared out (with a pen marking in the bottom for the sanding phase), center seam reinforcement strip in place

Shaping the braces to the back radius on concave disc. I keep sanding until all of the pen marking is gone.

nice radius!

Time to notch the center seam strip for the braces

Popping out the piece-to-be-popped-out with a chisel

All ready for gluing down the bracing on the go-bar deck. Under the back is the same concave disc on which the braces were shape-sanded. 

Braces glued, glue spill out cleaned

It doesn't look bad at all, thinks I

New project starting

It's been a while…

I just got an exciting box delivered today. Sami is going to get a new guitar, a 12 fret, short scale 000. Top is redwood with adirondack bracing, and back and sides figured sapele. It was the first time I used LMII's Kit Wizard. The materials are of high quality, the plates are thicknessed and even joined and the ebony fingerboard already slotted, so it's going to be a pretty fast build, I hope. The first glue seam is already laid down, as I glued the back center seam reinforcement in place. Here we GO!!

This kit's got it all. Just add tuners and strings. And a bit of glue here and there...

A neat trick to seat the center seam properly: masking tape borders.

When the masking tape is removed, so are the glue spills as well