After cutting the outside, this is what the body looks like (upside down):
The neck is made of quarter sawn maple with red arariba glued in the middle. I decided on 'neck almost through' building technique, and have about a 2 degree back angle on the neck. While I have not started this yet, I plan on using wenge for the fretboard, tailpiece, and bridge.
The book matched sound board was cut from a carefully selected spruce 2x6 which was pretty close to being quarter sawn and had no knots in the section I cared about.
Yesterday I cut the f holes and planned the bracing, and bent the binding wood (red arariba) which I will be using for binding the f holes:
More posts to follow as I progress. If anyone has any suggestions or comments, I am happy to hear them... while I have a fair bit of woodworking experience, I don't have a lot of experience with guitars. This site has been a great resource when I was in the planning stages, though... I could not have gone this far without the great content here!
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Yep, planning on binding top and bottom (bottom already done, image below; top will be done shortly after I work up the courage to glue the top in place).
Top is pretty much ready to go now... the f hole binding is complete (and while not perfect, I feel is passable for my first attempt). I just finished installing the ladder bracing this morning (I have a very slight induced arch in the large brace, and an even more slight arch in the other two). Nothing overly complicated or calculated, I just rounded off the brace on the belt sander until it looked right. (In this picture you can see the completed f hole binding too). The bridge will end up over top of the large brace, give or take.
Glad you stepped the neck trough down so the top can vibrate more. Love the binding in the F-Holes, hope you put it around the top edge too. That would look great. The Spruce will sound great.