Putting together the pieces

I am going to let the wood acclimatize to its new environment for a couple of weeks before I start to assemble anything but I did want to get an idea of how well the case parts were going to fit together so I set up the bottom board on my workbench and clamped the spine and cheek onto it and then laid out some of the other internal components.




The bottom of the instrument is supplied slightly over sized so there is a slight gap between the wrestplank and the cheek. As the instrument is being assembled the cheek edge of the bottom will be planed down until it is an exact fit.


Finally here are some of the internal bracing structures laid in place.