Violin Making 3

I have not posted in a few days because I have been working in short spurts, plus the weekends are usually spent completing customer repairs and such. Recently I prepared the two halves of the top for gluing. The top wood comes from the supplier as a quarter sawn piece that has been partially sawn through to half it. This way it can be book matched (meaning the 2 halves of the same piece can be put together like opening a book). The edges that will be glued together must be perfectly straight and square so that the edges meet precicely and there are no gaps in the joint. Once this is accomplished the halves can be glued.

 Truing the edges of the top halves so they can be glued.

 The top halves clamped.

The top halves glued.