Alright, I haven't had the chance to take pictures in 2 weeks, and it turns out my roommate has an "ok" camera which blows my blackberrys quality out of the water. So I took advantage of that.
My top and back have been thicknessed to the optimal thickness to what felt right when flexed and tapped on. My back still needs some final sanding and shaping done to the braces, but it's basically done. My top is completely done. My braces have been shaped according to how it felt again when flexing and tapping. It's voiced to what I believe to be the optimized sound. When tapping on it, it's not too picky as to where I hold it to ring out, and when tapping on each corner of the bridge plate and behind each tonebar it rings out well all with different pitches.
I've also got my sides bent and my blocks glued up. In the pictures I only have 1 piece of kerfing glued in, but I've got more glued up as we speak. I've got a close up on the inside of the back and inside of the sides to try to show the flames in the Koa. It's all pretty mellow, but the flames are consistantly packed through out the whole back and sides. Once finished they should pop out quite a bit. My top is also very mellow bearclaw, which I definitely prefer to some of the "extreme" figures that look a bit more like worms through out the whole top to me.
Here's the pics:
That's all for now, with in another week or so I'll post more progress.
-Dan
