The first thing I did after joining and sanding the tops was to insert the soundhole rosette. I chose to use a combination of two pieces of ivoriod binding sandwiched around a piece of thin black fiberboard.
Next, I joined the tops and sanded them close to final thickness using a drum sander and cabinet scrapers.
Both tops have grain patterns varying from fairly tight grain to wide grain. I chose to join one of the tops with the tighter grain bookmatched toward the center seem and the other top with the wide grain near the center.
I ripped the bracing stock and thicknessed it according to the plans. Then I sanded the radius of the top curvature into each brace using a radiused sanding form and glued each of the braces to the top using hot hide glue.
Above, you can see that I'm using a go-bar deck to clamp the braces until the glue dries then the braces are carved down to their final size and shape.
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