guitars ready to be French Polished

Here´s from left to right, #106, #107 and #108.
Fpolishing will start now and I expect it to take me some 3 - 4 weeks.

Gluing the fingerboard.

Guitars with bindings

Here´s the 3 guitars with bindings on From left 108 - 107 - 106

Gluing bindings

So here we have 107 and 108 hanging with ropes. Number 106 has the bindings finished.

bindings on a steelstring

here´s the binding scheme on 105, a steelstring. Ovangkol sides with silver oak bindings.

first part of assembly finished

so here they are 106 - 108 left to right. There will be a short break before I start with the second part of the assembly which is bindings/purfling fingerboard/frets, shaping of the neck and making the bridges.

Gluing the back

 Last part of the assembly 1 is to glue the back on the the guitar. The photo is a few days old and I cant remember which of the 3 guitars it is. From this angle they all look the same. Nimbus is still taking it easy.

#107 ready for the back

And Nimbus taking it easy in the armchair.