Bending the Sides

There’s one half close

At some point in any project you have to stop stalling and start working on the expensive wood. I’ve managed to put this off while I built or bought the stack of tools and fixtures I need to build a guitar, but the arrival of my Ebay Stanley #12 1/2 veneer scraping plane has removed my last excuse.

That excuse was moderately excusable; the sides of a guitar must be worked thin enough to bend without cracking, about 80 or 90…