While I impatiently wait for the bridge glue to cure I have some time to post a few more photos.
I fretted the neck, sanded and polished the guitar, installed the tuners and am current gluing on the bridge. All of this is pretty straight forward. I think the only thing that I do different than most is to not tape off the bridge. Taping the bridge with an undersized piece of tape would save me a bit of time, but I find it very easy to scrape the finish out of the middle of the bridge area. Working to get a clean edge is the same in either case. I position the bridge, screw it down tight and trace the bridge using a brand new scalpel blade. Once i clear the bulk of the finish out of the bridge area I use a sharp chisel to remove the finish right to my traced cut line. Some of it is in my pictures.
Oh by the, I am using the new LMI instrument glue for the bridge. My old procedure when using a vacuum clamp was to wait 10 minutes remove the clamp, clean up the squeeze out (it use to be soft but held together and easy to remove.) With the new glue the squeeze out was hard after 10 minutes, I used a bit of water to soften it and remove the squeeze out. It is a drag to be cleaning cured glue off the finish. I think I will clean up after 5 or so minutes now.
