so first I had to put in this kerfed lining on the inside of my guitar, this is so the top and back will have more to glue to.
This is the kerned lining.I put glue on, trying not to get to much on, and then spread it out with my finger.
Once I had a nice even coat of glue I put the lining into place and used a few clamps to hold it there, I had to be very careful because I needed to leave 1/32 above the sides.I then filled in the open spaces with as many clamps as I could
And here is the end result!
Once I had done this to both sides I had to sand down that 1/32 I had left above the sides and make sure everything was even. I did not get any photos of this process, but I can tell you what I did.
First I had to make a tool to sand the sides with the right angle a 5 degree and 1 1/2 degree. This was a interesting tool because really those degrees are quite small. Once I had it made I just used 80 grit stick on sandpaper and I was ready to go.
I then started to sand both sides of the guitar using a white pencil on the sides to make sure I didn't go down to far. Once I got almost everything even I noticed a had a few really low spots, I wasn't sure what to do so I asked the luthier I talked about early. He said to take a small piece of wood and glue it into the low spots then sand that down. It's what I did and it worked great!
Guess that's about it for now. I am just getting ready to put in the rosette around the sound hole and then the top bracings.
