Then using some "harvested" wood from the soundboard, I made the soundhole plate 🙏🎶🎸🙂

The next stage was to partially carve the ends of the other Top Braces prior to gluing them in place as it can be a little more difficult when glued u...

A very long couple of days @tv101. 😉 🎸🎶🙏🙂

Very nice work @clinton 🙏🎸🎶🙂

@james-chacewatergmail-com-2 Hi James, you could carve out a small part of the rosette and inlay a small graft as a feature. 🤔 🎸🙂🎶🙏

@usadave Nice work Dave. 🎶🙂🎸🙏

Here we have it...... 🙂🙏🎸🎶

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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Cheers @swepri. More to come soon. 🙂🙏🎸🎶

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

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...

Then cut out the soundboard shape on the bandsaw. 🙂🙏🎸🎶

Then plane and sand it flush with the soundboard 🎶🎸🙏🙂

Then glue in the rosette. 🙂🙏🎸🎶

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. Th...

Plane the soundboard down to a smooth and level 3mm thickness. 🙂🙏🎸🎶

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

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. 🎸🙂🎶🙏

Then cut the fret slots with the fretting jig 🙏🎶🙂🎸