Yeah, yeah, I know. My puns are a little lame, and more than a little silly, but I have a seven-year-old daughter, so silly puns are part of my daily communication skills.
So... I carved and glued the struts in the guitar top. Sorry I missed getting pics of the process. Essentially, all I did was to take two strips of spruce (the same spruce I used for the top) and orient them so they were also quarter sawn (the grain edges going up and down, rather than side to side). I used a pencil to follow the curve of the inside of the guitar top on the struts, with them positioned where I wanted them, and then cut them on the band saw.
Using a variety of tools - from tiny planes to sandpaper to an X-Acto knife - I gradually refined the bottom curves until they fit perfectly along the contour of the carved surface. They are spaced so that the outer edges of the struts match where the outer edges of the neck and tail blocks will be.
They are now glued in place. I will do the final shaping with my tiny luthier planes, as you can see they don't quite match exactly, particularly at the bottom end.
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