1. Top & back plates ready for jointing

2. Plates glued up in jointing jig

3. Sides prepped for bending

4. Cutaway bend in progress

5. Sides bent and, neck and tail blocks fitted

6. Internal linings fitted

7. Back braces fitted

8. Ebony rosette "scale" routings done

9. Back braces shaped

10. Back ready for fitting to sides

11. Back fitted

12. Inlaying Agoya shell "dragon scales" into ebony rosette

13. Rosette completed

14. Sound hole cut and outside profile trimmed

15. Top braces carved

16. Top ready for fitting to sides and back

17. Top, back and sides come together

18. Neck components ready for gluing

19. Gluing up headstock scarf joint

20. Neck components all glued up in neck gluing jig

21. Headstock laminations stacked, truss rod slot cut and profile marked up

22. Each fret cut and tangs trimmed ready to press into fretboard

23. Frets pressed into fret slots

24. Fretboard completed

25. Inlaying headstock purfling's and custom inlay

26. Headstock inlays completed

27. Fitting inner purfling using teflon spacer for better fit

28. Fitting ebony binding to cutaway side

29. Ebony binding fitted

30. Body completed

31. Checking neck and fretboard alignment

32. Fitting ebony headstock plate to headstock

33. Headstock shape cut

34. Drilling headstock slots

35. Body, Fretboard & headstock (almost) completed

36. Final alignment checks

37. Headstock completed

38. Fretboard glued and clamped to neck

39. Shaping neck

40. Sanding with sanding bow.

41. Check neck fit... perfect!

42. Build phase completed

43. Pore filling done

44. In the paint booth

45. Starting the polishing process

46. Polishing completed. Now ready to fit bridge

47. Bridge fitted

48. Pickup installed and strings on