Clamping time

Wiped and scraped my way to a clean glue joint. Also picked up a metal bar from Home Depot and made four clamps. 

Exploding bridge

I should of wiped everything down with acetone before glueing. Mental note. Now to make clamps. ......

Nut and Saddle

I purchased a saddle blank from Stewmac and rough shaped it using files. I will do the final shaping after fitting the strings. That will come after the spring when the weather is nice enough to spray outside, but before the pollen starts. The Nut blank I purchased is way too short relative to how thick I left the fingerboard, so I decided to take a piece of ebony and carve a nut. 

Almost there

Just thought I'd post a photo of my current status.

Fingerboard

I glued up the fingerboard before hammering in the frets. The large rubber bands made great clamps and auto centered the fingerboard. Next time out I should use brads for alignment. The fingerboard kept creeping north.

Fretboard

I started cutting the fret slots. I made a jig to do this. The fretboard is rosewood and the fret wire is from stewmac.

Headstock

This is my first time carving a classical headstock. I created a template for one half using plexiglas traced that and then flipped it over to do the other half. I am happy with the results.