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nice job till there on the archtop, cleaner than mine "stairs" kekeke keep looking!

Tks Paulie, Res, Scott and Blackdog! I knew that somebody would talk about the few clamps. Well, I thinks that using a guide block provides more strength to the fretboard surface. When the first clamp was pressed, at fret one, the glue squeezes for all fretboard sides, including the oposite side at end, proving that the power was distributed for equal in all surface. As the others clamps are pressed the glue squeezes are increased showing that the clamp had action on that section. Sometime I had to pull off a bass fretboard glued this way, and was very dificult cause it was very well glued. Other thing that I consider, is the fact that the fretboard had the slots, and this fact made that the fretboard by it self looses the own hardness, if you will glue whithout a block guide, use a thosen of clamps is justified, but using a guide, I think (INMHO) that you can use five or six good clamps. The bigsby is close to the bridge, but nothing to much, the bridge screws in the picture are very very high and the perspective of the picture give a wrong idea. The black mark is dry glue with dust of a clamp that I put to press the side of a neck pocket. Tks again folks!!

A gift for a friend Body Cedar Neck Grapia Fretboard Ipe

Updating, slots open, inlays markup applied, I´ll finish and glue this weekend

Some updating fret board almost ready to glue

Skull It´s a vinyl plastic decal. I decide to do this way just to be replaceble. Just pull off, clear and put a new.

Finished!!!

Res: congrats for the GOTM, more one excelent result! I like a lot the top wood and straps details.

and ... let it shine!!!! great polish

I´m keep an eye in this topic since beginning, super clean work and a awesome result! Well done Scott. Restoration - I agree with you take good pics is harder than building a guitar. (LOL)

almost finished!

Updating

A little update

Very very nice and clean work you´ve done! I love the jack recess. Congrats!

tks kenggg!!!

I´m waiting for the pics too, it seems to be a nice project.

You don´t see the mountain under the table! A big trash bag this weekend, wood rasps, dust and beer cans! But yes some progres was done, pickups and neck cavities routed, contour shape sanded, bind channel routed carefulfy ( this time there will be no bind gaps ), the arch top was done too. Seeya!!

Waiting for the varnish.

I like to use wrapaound bridges in lapsteels by the same reasons that the article in the link that you post. The radius don´t be necesserly a big problem, I don´t use to do something to "fix" this in the bridge. About my mockup, I made a mistake puting the bridge in the octave compensation position, in fact this draw was made to the owner see the color scheme. This projetc is the same that is in my 50´s Lapsteel thread. It´s just another "a simple lapsteel" Wez (keke). Seeya!