I'm so busy with three or four projects I barely have time to post about this one. I will try to say as much as I can now, and as time permits later perhaps I can add to what's here.'
I've glued the top to the body of the guitar. I used a whole bunch of those little clamps (I added more than you see in this picture). They can be tightened down gently so as not to exert a lot of pressure, while being secure.
Next came the neck. Since the mortise and tenon were pre-fitted and
tweaked to the right angle all I had to do was glue it in place. This
didn't mean that I ignored my alignment during the process, it just
meant that it was straightforward (so to speak) to get it seated
properly. The bungee cord pulled the neck in toward the body, while the
clamps provided downward pressure into the proper position.
For added security, I drilled for two hex bolts into the bottom of the neck set.
Sighting down the cluttered room... er, I mean, down the fingerboard, I can see that the top of the pickup covers line up. The edges have been routed, but not yet cleaned up by the time this pic was taken.
After cleaning up the routed edges I began to glue on the binding. I used plastic binding, and the Loctite cyanoacrylate (superglue) held in place very nicely. I didn't even need to tape it down to dry, I just held it in place for a few seconds every five or six centimetres at a time.
More work on the paint job being done now. Waiting for that to dry before I can continue with the remainder of the details. I still have to put the frets on the fingerboard, install the tuners, and then I will be pretty much ready to start setting up for stringing it.
The taping job looks pretty sketchy around the sound holes but it actually worked quite well. Difficult to tell, but I essentially taped the inside edges of the holes with the tape sticking upward, creating walls of sorts. Then I covered the openings at the top of the walls with more tape.
