Here you can see different stages of the bodies. Following these immediately after the gluing of top and bottom. The outer dimensions are already pre-milled, the bindings are already waiting.

When the bindings are inserted they look like this:

For varnishing, the later glued areas for bridge and neck must be masked. For a better guidance when varnishing I made handles and screwed them tight.

Followed by a back with curly maple right after painting.