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Top first to voice, then the back. I don't use reverse kerfing and yes, occasionally I have a little squeeze out visible. Better that than not enough glue. If some schmuck doesn't want my guitar because there are a few beads of glue visible, or a couple of chisel spikes in the top, instead of listening to the dang thing, then I'll be glad to sell it to someone else.

Years ago when I was apprenticing in repair at a shop in Pittsburgh, we had a customer who'd bought one of the Ibanez S Series thinbodied electrics (Floyd Rose tailpiece, two humbuckers and a center single coil). The client complained that the guitar wouldn't stay in tune. We worked on it, set it up and he wasn't satisfied. So we called Ibanez. Ibanez had us send it to them. Upon receiving it, they said there wasn't anything wrong with it. We agreed. So it came back. The customer wasn't satisfied. The customer's technique was to bend the strings all the way across the fingerboard (hence it going out of tune). We called Ibanez, who said, give them their money back. We don't want them having one of our guitars. Great lesson in customer service.

I will say this,
since coming to this forum,
I do more sanding and clean up on the inside.
Thanks all!
The bar has been raised.
A little.

I will say this,
since coming to this forum,
I do more sanding and clean up on the inside.
Thanks all!
The bar has been raised.
A little.

I actually prefer the look of chiseled braces r/t the completely smoothed and rounded look of braces that have been sanded extensively. I guess it's just a different aesthetic. I would love to be able to build a guitar without ever touching it with sandpaper.

BTW, I recently saw Christopher Scwhartz take a piece of walnut from roughsawn to mirror smooth in less time than you could sand it smooth - and the surface looked way better than a sanded surface. I wish I could do that on my guitars.
Walter

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Walter Lay
"It's taken me so long, but now that I know
I can see. All that I do or say, is all I ever will be"
- Billy Joe Shaver

What the!!!

Not me! The honor goes to Marcus!

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Waddy

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I did build a guitar using only a scraper, the last classical one I built. IT was actually not too bad at all except I had a hard time scraping the spruce top because it left ridges in it along the annular rings. But I finished it like that anyway and it's pretty cool.

Well to be fair, I did use a planner and drum sander to get my dimensions close. And I cheated a bit and sanded between coats of finish in spots that I just couldn't scrape.

Tell ya what... I know how to sharpen a scraper after that experience

I can't figure out what part of the guitar body we are looking at there?

That's the termination of the closing brace and the outside fan brace.

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