So, this morning, we spent time thicknessing our top and back plates on that giant drum sander. I had my turn to bend my side pieces... and you see the result in the picture. This is not the final shape, but gets them most of the way there. The rest is done by hand on a bending iron.
We laid out our tops and back also, using the templates you see in the 2nd picture. This included making final decisions about which part of the grain and figure to incorporate... and whether to include/exclude flaws or irregularities in the wood, etc. The result is in the 3rd pic. The top, being spruce, is fairly even grained and visually plain at this stage. The back, however, is wild. Lots of figure, kind of rorshach-like, with some unusual flame in the maple, which will pop later.
We also drilled some locator holes... to help us line things up later.
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