Off camera, we’ve selected the wood for the guitar, highly figured Brazilian rosewood for the back and sides and Adirondack spruce for the top. The bookmatched halves of the top and back have been rough sanded and joined together. Channels for the back seam inlay and the rosette, as well as the soundhole in the top have been cut. A neck blank has been laid up, gluing heel block and headstock to the running stock of the neck. The tenon which will join the neck to the body has been cut on the table saw. A channel for the truss rod has been routed, and the truss rod installed, and a highly figured rosewood peghead overlay has been glued to the face of the headstock.