Instrument details: Laura Van Solinge - Steel string and classical guitar

Gluing the monkey pod back

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Once the rosette has been fitted in the cedar front, the soundhole is removed

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Carving the braces

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Blocking up the heel

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The sides are bent around a hot iron

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Cutting the tentellones, small blocks that join the front to the sides

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Cutting notches in the linings to receive the back braces

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Laura has cut her own logo design from mother of pearl to fit in the headstock

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Laura is also completing a classical guitar she started earlier. The back and sides are padauk

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Flattening the lacquer

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Laura's completed steel string

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The finished back

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Laura's classical guitar

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The padauk back and sides

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