I am building a WCG model guitar for Vaughn F. This guitar model is a full sized guitar based on drawings by William Cumpiano. Vaughn has chosen black walnut for back and sides. The walnut is from a tree removed from a construction site in Emmett, Idaho. 

Thinning, cutting and marking the sides for bending.

Bending sides

Both sides in the building mold:

Heel & tail blocks fabricated and ready to be glued to the sides:

Gluing heel and tail blocks:

Installing linings for more glue surface area between sides, top & back:

Side crack stop reinforcement maple strips installed:

Routing heel end graft - Material to match bindings will be installed here.

Both top and back are sanded to accept the domed back and sides. 15' radius for the back and 30' radius for the sound board:

The joint edge of each back half are trued with a jack plane for perfect fit when glued

The back is joined with a Gibson style back strip

Interior back reinforcement installed and cut for back braces

Brace wood for back and top are cut from hand split billets. Thinned to proper thickness

Each brace is then contoured to the radius of the back (15') or the top (30') using a special jig on my jointer:

Braces are glued to the back using fiberglass kite rods to apply pressure

Shaping back braces

Back braces shaped and ready to mate with sides

Glued on with pressure from kite rods

Trimmed and awaiting soundboard

Joining the Western Red Cedar sound board

Marking top for brace location

Carving X braces

Gluing the other braces

Carving braces

Braces carved and top voiced  -  ready for attachment to sides & back

Soundboard installed

Cutting binding channels

Installing b/w/b purfling for end graft

Gluing bindings, purfling and pau abalone

Bindings purfling & shell scraped and sanded

Glue up of neck & peghead

Neck with truss rod installed

Initial neck set

Ebony fret board slotted for 25.4" scale

Attaching fret board to neck

Neck shaping

Drilling holes for tuners

Inlays arrive from Vietnam

Cavity cut for eagle head and ready for installation

Installing frets

Fret position markers

Mating body and neck

Fitting bridge pins

Installing tuners

Pictures of finished guitar by Jeanne Giltzow