Gluing on the fingerboard

The fingerboard has been glued on.  It is made from a hard rock maple and dyed ebony black.  It looks quite good with the dye and I'm now working on trimming and shaping the bone nut.

Gluing on the soundboard and trimming.

So now the soundboard has been glued on the shell.  This proved to be a bit more difficult than I had expected, mainly because the soundboard is cut out a bit oversize and trimmed after gluing.  I guess I made my overhang a bit too much as the stress from the tapes holding it in place caused it to crack in two places.  I believe it is still structurally sound as the cracks are right near the edges and I applied enough glue to fill in and re-glue those cracks.  Overall I learned a lot from this step and am OK with how it is turning out.

 Here it is cut ready for the fingerboard and fingerboard points but not yet trimmed.

Here is a closeup with soundboard trimmed.  You can also just see one of the cracks at the lower left.

The whole soundboard with trim.  It is starting to look like a real instrument!  I'm not far from needing strings!