April 22th 2021

I spent a bit of time cleaning up the neck, not too far in the future a guitar body will be glued to it so it is easier to work on now. I will do the final heel profile once joined to the rims and the box closed.





Before working on the top and back and this point in a traditional build it is good to have the rims ready.



From my Flamenco plans I have a side template for a 25' radius on the back. My negra will be 5 mm thicker than my blanca's so I adjusted. I profiled right to the line. I hate spending time sanding millimeters off with a radius dish. So cut them out on the band saw and bent them one at a time.











I trimmed the sides to fit in the mold using a combination of my bandsaw and my belt sander. I like using the belt sander as I came square the ends to the top.







The neck blanks are not tall enough to make a tail block without end grain on the top and bottom. So I took a spanish cedar neck scrap and cut and jointed a couple pieces to make a tall enough block.



I cleaned up the edges to good glue surfaces and glued them together.







While the tail block glue up was curing I trimmed the neck side of the rims to fit in the neck.











I cleaned up the tail block, trimmed it to size and put a slight radius on the rim side and glued it to the rims.











I have a clean join at the tail and the book match was not bad, so instead of an end graph I decided to just have a single .5 mm black purfling line. The Japanese saw has a kerf of just about .5 mm so ...









Now to the top. I installed a store bought rosette. Was the router and base I am able to walk right to size at the same depth as the rosette.





I profiled the top and used the waste cutoffs to make sound hole donut. It is a lot easier to install before cutting out the sound hole.











At the end of the day I beveled the sound hole donut so it does not look so thick at the sound hole.