Christian Müller

I jig sawed both parts of the back and glued them togehter as I did it with the face. After that I began the planing to the desired thickness and noticed that rosewood is a really hard wood...

At the beginning the thickness of both parts were rellay uneven.

Here still remains a lot of work to do.

The back had a big crack but I got some good repair tips from the gearbuilder.de forum. I flooded the crack with cyano acrylat (superglue) and it seems to work.

(see next picture)

After some more planing and working with the scraper blade the back is now ready for glueing.

I used a lot of glue for the center strip...

It was leveled with sand paper and a scraper blade.

On the inner side I glued some reinforcements made of some scrap parts of the top.

I had to work with "dirty tricks" glueing on the back bars because I didn't have the proper clamps at hand.

The back with all bars glued on.

On this picture it is quite obvious that the inner surface is as perfect as it should be. During the thicknessing process I should have switched from the plane to the scraper blade a bit earlier...