This is another workboard. Here we have a tool for glueng the two halves of a top or bottom plate together. The large duct tape covered lump is a weight to hold the plates against the glueing board. The wedges and stops are for applying pressure against the joint in the middle of the boards. There are a bunch of holes to accomodate various sizes of plates.

Here I have the two pieces that make up the back plate on the shooting board. The metal level has #80 sandpaper glued on to its sides. Using the level, I can square up the edges of the 2 back plate pieces prior to gluing them together.

After squaring up the edges of the back plate pieces I have the pieces chucked up in the gluing board. This was a dry test and lead to applying glue to the edges and letting the plate sit over night to cure.

Here I am starting the proces sof attaching the various braces to the underside of the top plate. In this picture, I am gluing the main, X-braces.

Here you can see the two X-braces after the glue has cured.

Now I have moved on to the parallel braces that run perpendicular to the long X-brace. The gray weight is sitting on the maple bridge plate while the glue on it cures.

Now the parallel braces and the bridge plate are all ready to go.

Here you can see on view of the 4 side braces being clamped down while the glue cures.

Here is another detailed view of the side braces being clamped down while th eglue cures.

I have removed the clamps and you can get a good vie wof the side braces in place.

In this view you can see the top brace already glued in place. The hole in the brace will allow access to the truss rod that runs inside the neck.

Here is a picture of the top plate with all of its braces in place. The braces have not been trimmed to length nor sanded to the proper (rounded) profile. Still a lot more to do!