Guitar build #2 Progress

I haven't posted anything in quite a while, but I've just recently been getting to work on my Guitar #2, a Rosewood/Sitka Spruce OM Cutaway.

I just got the back glued on the rim, and the top is braced up and rough shaped. The neck is all ready to go and the fretboard is fastened on with a truss rod in there from back when I didn't have the tools to build the other parts. This is the first guitar I've done scratch braces with, and I'm pleased with the result so far.

This guitar 100% so far has been built with reject parts and pieces of wood that Martin factory decided they could not use. It's proving a solid learning experience trying to make all these foreign parks work out and at the same time it's a really cheap build in comparison.

I'm hoping to close up the shell in the next couple of days, and start working on the bindings/finish.

Neck shaping and fretboard

The kit I got came with a rough shaped neck, and I needed to do quite a bit of carving to get the final shape I wanted, although it's still not 100% perfect where I want it, you can get the idea from the picture.

I didn't get multiple pictures of this so you can see the fretboard has been glued on also, and it's fretted up until the 12th fret so that fitting the neck will be a little easier, I'll go back and fret the rest of them later.

I don't have the tuners installed in the picture, but I've also drilled the holes for my gold Gotoh tuners that is a really nice touch to the guitar.

Bindings

I haven't updated this in a while, but that doesn't mean I haven't made ANY progress. I'm not going to lie though, the bindings of the guitar intimidated me and I was a little afraid to get on it, and that's why it'd been so long since I've updated. I'm lacking quite a bit of tools and had to improvise as much as possible as far as guides go, but they turned out ok.

Body is Together

Aside from routing the bindings the body is all done and together. I just finished gluing the back on and by taping the guitar and already have an idea of the great sound it's going to produce. It's finally starting to take it's shape as a guitar.

Glueing Side Reinforcement Strips

Glueing the Top On

The Patches

Here are the 2 mends. They both turned out alright, but once the guitar has a finish on it, I'll be able to determine which one I like better.