Peg holes for the machine heads drilled

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A bit of fretboard making next. Prepare the fretboard blank by planing one surface smooth and flat. Plane the opposite surface to take it down to about 7mm thick. The finished fretboard will be about 6mm.

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Once I got the fretboard blank thickness I squared off one edge. I then used this edge to mark out the fret positions. I measured in 35mm from the straight edge to mark the centre line. The scale length is 630mm. Using the fret calculator from the stewmac website I marked out the position of each fret with a scalpel and square. 

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Then cut the fret slots with the fretting jig

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Once the slots were cut I tapered the fretboard using a shooting board and plane. It is 46mm at the nut and 56mm at the 12th fret. 

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Making the soundboard next. Two pieces of rough sawn bookmatched spruce. Plane along the bookmatched edges then glue them together.

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Plane the soundboard down to a smooth and level 3mm thickness. 

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Cut some strips of laminate for the construction of the rosette. They are 3-4mm wide and about 30-50mm longer than the rosette circumference.

Then route the channel to house the rosette.

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Then glue in the rosette.

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Then plane and sand it flush with the soundboard

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Then cut out the soundboard shape on the bandsaw.

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Next, I prepared the braces for the soundboard. For this guitar the braces on the upper bout are 10mm thick and 20mm high. For all the other braces on the soundboard they are 7mm thick and 20mm high. The length of each brace is about 10-20mm longer than required. They will all be taken down to the correct size when carved into shape.

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Then each brace has a 28 foot radius planed onto the edge that will be glued to the soundboard. 

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@russ. Great work there!

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@russ. Great work there!

Cheers @swepri. More to come soon. 

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The next stage was the making of the X-brace. The measurements for this are a bit long winded but I'll happily post them if anyone needs them. 

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Here we have it......

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Keep it up, good going!

You’ve had a busy couple of days Russ!

@russ looking real nice!!!