LMI Classical Guitar Kit 2 This is my second classical guitar kit. This guitar has had the most disasters. First while routing the back binding ledge I tilted the router and made the ledge too wide in one area. To fix it I routed the whole back to the depth of the error and went with more purfling lines. It came out looking OK. Unfortunately while gluing on the fretboard the guitar fell off the bench. I did not notice any damage at the time, but two weeks later I found a crack in the back. I replaced the back and used my original purfling design. The guitar was pore filled with zpoxy and French polished with Ubeaut Hard Shellac.   Englemann spruce top   East Indian Rosewood Back and sides   Spanish cedar neck Englemann spruce top Built from a Hauser 37 plan   Top braces were all cut from Engelmann spruce brace wood   picture of my work space in the garage. Back braces are spanish cedar   Completed Top   Gluing on the top. This was a bad wayto do it. I should have glued the top in the solera. The neck angle is slight off. No problem gluing on the first back   continuing clamping on the back   The guitar top and bottom glued and flush trimmed. This is the first guitar that I used my fancy Luthier tool binding jig. I did great on the top, but tipped the router on the back. Resulting in a deeper ledge into the back.   I fixed it up with a facier purfling scheme that worked out OK.   It was a little hard to keep track of so many bands of wood. All and all gluing on the bindings and purflings went OK   Note the clamp on the bottom of the guitar, I first clamped on the fretboard without this clamp and the weight of the clamps pulled the guitar of of the table and crashed to the ground.   Unfortunatly the back was damaged and I had to remove and replace it. If I was not so angry I probably could have saved it. I chiseled off the old kerfling and got to repalce it with AST A4 kerfling using their fancy clamps.   I shellaced the inside of the new back.   Gluing on the new back. This time I used a Steward MacDonald TrueChannel Binding Router Jig to route the binding ledge.   The binding and purflings channels were cut and the glue up went well. For the frst time I had perfect alignment of the back to the tailgraph. What I am learning is to set things up so the I can see them when doing any gluing.   I used my handy dandy centering jig The Simple CenterLine Finder to set the bridge location. All of the tape is to keep the bridge from sliding as I clamp it on while gluing. Once the clamps were on for about 10 minutes I removed the tap and cleaned up the glue squeeze out.   Back, sides and neck were pore filled with zpoxy guitar after a wash of Amber shellac this is after the first french polish session.   Final French polish. Final French polish.   Final French polish.   Final French polish.