Fitting the back

Just quick update on what I have been doing Monday on the guitar. Since it was 32 degrees Celsius I decided not to do a lot of scraping and sanding on the neck but instead I worked on fitting the back to the body. With the back laid correctly on the body I figured out where the braces meet the body sides. With that drawn out I could remove the pieces of the kerflings with saw and chisel:

After that the braces had to be cut to the correct length so they just fit into the body surrounded by the gaps I just made in the kerflings. First I had to draw out where to cut them, then cut it in with a saw and last remove the excess timber with a chisel:

When all braces where cut to length I fitted the back to the body and dry clamped it to see if there are any gaps between the back and the sides to determine where the sides need shaping: