Over the past week I have been able to spend some time cutting braces and over the past 2 days I have made some progress closing the body. The video series from O’brien Guitars has been so helpful and really helped to understand the process of voicing the soundboard.
Go-bar clamping the final stages of braces
Profile of the braces after lots of touching up and tapping
The twin soundboards for the twins
The body kerning had to be trimmed so that the X-braces and transverse brace would fit.
After the soundboards were glued in place (using the Go-Bar Deck), I used a flush bit on the router to trim the excess off the soundboard.