Headstock, heel and sound hole

I made good progress on the guitar last week working on three different parts: The headstock, sound hole and heel. To get stated on the first two I made two paper templates to help draw the out line on the top and the headstock:

With those drawing out the outlines was a piece of cake:

I started on the sound hole. With a fretsaw I gently made the cut:

The downside of cutting a hole in the top is that you are actually weaken it. To counter that you have to add small strips of wood around the hole. The best way is to cut these strips in a way that the grain is right-angled in respect to the grain of the top. Since my sound hole is not really a traditional one I also have to cut non traditional strips:

When satisfied I glued them to the top and put a weight on top of them to clamp them down while drying:

Second up was the headstock. It is a very narrow headstock which introduces danger of snapping it of when the strings are under tension. I already put the headstock at a 13 degree angle earlier on but we also have to cope with forces working outwards. To withstand those we will put in a graphite pen. So another channel had to be routed in. As a guide I first cut the headstock parallel to the channel outline. After that the channel was routed as deep as the pen needed.