So with a long quiet afternoon, and the shop now non-chaotic, I finished the mold. Most of the actual work was leveling the pine "walls" of the mold to the plywood faces. I found the best tool for this to be a surform rasp. It gobbled up the pine and left the ply mostly alone.
I measured the final dimensions - lower bout 15 1/2 inches, waist 8 1/2 inches and upper bout 10 inches. From the nut to the tail - 31 1/2 inches. Note that the space for the peghead is oversize so that I can make a variety of headstock designs on this basic body.
Now onto the electric charcoal grill starter-based side bender...Later
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