Marshwood Acoustic, Chapter 2, The Back

The back of this guitar is a subtlety flamed piece of maple. I re-sawed a board creating two book-matched pieces and then joined them together. They were then sanded to a thickness of 2.5mm. The glue was scraped away and then a spruce back-strip was glued in using a clamping device called a "Go Bar Deck." The strip was glued in while the back plate is in a 15 foot radius dish. This will help top maintain the radius as we move forward.