Side braces and glueing the back.

Hey all!
So I got my top glued and then it was time to put the braces on the back... This was a little bit troublesome for me.
The main braces went on fine, but when I was putting the center braces on I caused a 5inch split in the back. It was right along the seam, and with some info from the people at KitGuitarsForum.com I was able to fix that. Not as nice as I would like, but I didn't see until after the glued dried.

So then I had to put the braces on the sides of the guitar, here are what they look like
As you can see I also filed for the back braces.


Then it was on to glueing the back.. Rather easy although I had to make a tool for it... My sides were not at 20in for the back so I made a tool that held the top and kept the sides at 20ins.
Thats this tool. The only thing wrong with it is I had to reck it to get it off after gluing, I had tried it before and it came off nice but once the sides were ridged it would not come off.

And here is how it looked gluing. I'll try to get some photos of it now

Gluing the top

Today has been filled with good news :) But, here is the news on my guitar.

I've be working on notching the slots for the braces on the sides of my guitar, finally got that done this afternoon.

Then all evening I've been working on gluing the top. First I did a dry run, just to make sure I knew how it would all work. Then I marked all of my spindle-clamps, Think that's what I was calling them lol, the way I put them on so I would know when actually gluing. I took them off in order so they would all be ready to go when I needed them.. The rest was pretty simple just applied the glue spread it out, put the top on and put all 30 spindle-clamps on.

here is what it looks like now

And now the rest of the braces.

I've been working on the rest of the braces was doing really good. I have all but 4 done, but I haven't been out to the shop since Wednesday... (been a little under the weather... again) 

I think I have enough go-bars to do all four at once, I just need to get out there and finish it. Still not feeling the best, but I'm not lightheaded anymore so I will probably head out there and finish them today.

I tell ya, I knew this would take a long time... I am not a perfectionist, but I love guitars so much that I knew I could do this. Unfortunately I find my self wanting to be so perfect that I don't get as much work as I need to done.

I might start working on some other parts of the guitar, that I can start on, so I get more work done. This guitar has to be finished by May, so I have a little less than 3 months to do this and I started in August. 

A little behind schedule perhaps?