Guitar with coffin case

Gluing the bridge and finished guitar

Animal hide gluing and binding the bridge.

Frets, bridge & inlayBone

Freting the neck

French polishing the back

Routing saddle slot

Before I was lucky enough to find a local source for mother of pearl I used some bone inlay for a 7th fret marker.

Bridge finished with mother of pearl inlay ready to be glued.

Joining the neck and fretboard

Location pins for the Fretboard. I haven't glued the neck yet, I'm waiting until everything is centred.

I get to use my mini plane to make the fretboard and neck flush.

V Joint, Headstock, Neck & Dovetail to body joint

Preparing V joint for headstock

Glueing and bracing neck to headstock

After planing the headstock it's ready for the ebony faceplate.

Gluing ebony faceplate. I made several tests before starting the final join. Test v joint headstock in the corner. 

Block cut headstock.

Preparing neck heel with three cedar blocks.

Ream the headstock holes.

Dove tail joint cut and ready to be glued.

Binding and purfling channels

Using my new Ashley Ives Chisels to cut binding channel

Back binding glued, taped and clamped with large rubber bands

Test fitting the binding.

Cutting the purfling channel

Test strip on spruce off-cut

Purfling channel complete and I put a layer of shellac on the top to protect the soundboard from glue and tape.

My HiTech hide-glue warmer.

When fitting the back binding I had some gaps with the rubber band method. I decided to try the rope method. It worked a lot better for me.

Scraping the purfling level

Test fit for the ebony binding.

Binding & purfling ready for scraping.