Bending once again.

I made myself a side bender pictured here. The cost was somewhere around 30€ (and the hot air gun can be used elsewhere too). It seems to work fine!

The rosewood set is bent now, and the end block is done. Some tweaking to the neck block still needed, but the rim is getting ready to be glued together.

For this set I'm planning a koa wood trimming which I will cut from an oversized side set that's getting bend next.

Nicest things you'll never see in a finished guitar...

...are the ones that go inside.

The white one is Lutz spruce (sold under a fascinating name "Snow Leopard Claw Spruce")

The brown one is sinker redwood, salvaged from the logs that sunk to the bottom of the river some hundred years ago.

You can tell the brown top goes into a baritone by looking at the bridge plate placement. The scale will be longer and thus the bridge lower to the top.