Sides, Neck, and Back

So I got alot done...

I cut the sides to length and glued on the endblock. The sides look pretty good, the shape is like the bastard child of a Dreadnought and a Grand Symphony

I tapered the neck, cut the headstock profile (the top has a sinusoidal profile....yeah I'm a nerd)

I finished bracing the back, and started scalloping the braces. Scalloping the braces on the top or back lightens the guitar and allows the top/back to resonate more readily and thus louder and brings out the midtones and the higher frequencies.

P.S. I decided that my next project is going to be a mandola. For a while in the 1920's, Mandolin orchestras were popular. The four instruments in the mandolin family are the mandolin (as we know it today), the mandola (tuned the same as a viola), the octave mandolin (tuned an octave below the mandolin) and the mandocello (tuned the same as a cello.) That build will have to wait until I finish this guitar, but it shouldn't be too difficult so I'm hoping sometime before the end of the school year...I'll probably rent an apartment and get an internship/job somewhere this summer (then its off to college...)