Build a Guitar
  1. Work Bench Setup
  2. End & Heel Blocks
  3. Side Bending Iron
  4. Bending Sides
  5. Gluing Sides
  6. Gluing Kerfing
  7. Tracing Top & Back
  8. Headstock detail
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1) Workbench Setup and Tools

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Plans, metal templates laying on top of guitar blocks. Piece of carpet on table top.

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Bending iron in one vise, propane torch strapped to C-clamp