Sound body

It is now officially a guitar! The last major constructive piece has been added: the back. So the body is closed. Before I glued the back on I measured and marked where the tailpiece should come. The part of the tailpiece which will be fitted onto the body has a large bold which is screwed into the tail block. I drilled a hole of about 5.5 mm wide where it can be screwed in. The thread of the bold is about 6.1 mm so this hole is needed to prevent the tail block from splitting.

Then the back had his turn. I first clamped it onto the body without glue to see if there where no gaps between the sides and the back. Once confirmed I applied the glue and put the clamps all around the body:

While that was drying I concentrated on the nut. With the tailpiece we measured where the high and the low e strings would end up on the nut. With a string spacing ruler I determined where the other strings would end up. I sawed the string slots in. This has to be done in an angle of about 20 degrees

After 1,5 hours the clamps could be removed and showed the result:

Of course the back needs to be trimmed.