1st build; time to stop dillydallying!

[BEJ]

Have started on my first cut back. Tried to bend the sides using hot pipe, didn't work out so well. So I made a new bending set up and this worked out a lot better with a few issues.

Looks like this one will be a learner, got some misalignment of the head and tail blocks. Should be able to work around it, and do better the next time. Need to square up the top, might have install a patch to line up the neck. Need to be creative here as most patching looks like crap or trying to cover a big screw up.

A few pics of bending rig and what I've done so far....

[BEJ]

Got a little work done on this one. Built a T bar sanding rig for sanding out rim edge, one of those things I wished I'd made sooner after seeing how well it worked. a few pics...Used a binding rig set up to hold guitar and pivot for T bar, nice to use something I already had.

[Kevin Sjostrand]

I did my edge sanding with a similar set up on a few guitars before I made my Sanding dishes.
It always seemed to work very well, and simple too.
Looks great

[BEJ]

Got a little done the past few days, call this "A mess of parts" a few pics...

[MaineGeezer]

I'm the type of person that couldn't follow a plan step by step if his life depended on it, sort of a knucklehead so I just hope I don't veer off into left field with this. With all the build threads I've looked at the past few months it's easy to get attracted to different ways to do something....

Oh, does that ever sound familiar! With my builds, the first one was built according to the directions of the luthier teaching me, so that one is fairly normal. From that point on, however, things tended to veer, sometimes quite a lot.

I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing. You're doing this (presumably) for YOUR enjoyment, so do what you want, although some experience with proven designs before straying too far afield is probably advisable. My biggest veerage was probably my experiments with falcate (curved) bracing for the top.