Welcome back! In this post I will show the preparation for installing the back. In this picture you can see the sides are glued to the top. The blue tape shows the profile of the sides. I will use a small block plane to remove the material above the blue tape.
Next I glue the kerfing into the sides. The kerfing gives me some glueing area along the edges to glue the back on. You'd be surprised what you can use as a clamp. Here I am using wooden clothespins with elastic wrapped around them to create enough clamping pressure.
The guitar is now ready for the back. The kerfing is installed. In the background you can see a vaporisor. THe humidity in the shop has been down below 30%. With this vaporisor I can get the humidity up to 40% within an hour, and keep it there. $15 at Canadian Tire and I have a humidity controlled shop...very cool!

Again, I use a lot of old school methods in building. Here you can see the rope method of gluing the back onto the rest of the guitar. This method give even clamping pressure all the way around.

This is where I am at today. As you can probably tell, I have condensed many steps into a few short posts. I started this blog well into the process. Progress from here on will be in real time. The next step...binding channels.

Stay Tuned!

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