Acoustic Guitar Build: Necessary Jigs and Braces

Some Jigs and forms are needed to obtain certain shapes and glue parts together while building the guitar, so my father made a go-bar set up to glue the braces to the soundboard and bottom and keep the brace's radius. For those who do not know, the top of the guitar - according to our plans - has a 28 foot radius and the bottom has a 15 foot radius and must be glued to braces to match the specified arch to keep strength and sound quality present while building. We built the braces out of cherry as well as the kerfing which i will get to later on. The braces needed to be cut to spec, then bent in a jig, and sent through the thickness sander, then, once released from the jig, the required radius for the bottom. (have not gotten to the top braces yet) The go-bar jig is for gluing ing the braces onto the top and bottom sheets of wood for the guitar. The sheets sit on a dish that has the appropriate radius cut out (purchased at lmii.com) so everything glues properly. Lmi also sells a go-bar jig (although to save some cash, we made ours) and they do a better job explaining it than i can. The kerfing jig is pretty straight forward. Its just there to guide cuts with the radial saw. My father has a great deal of experience with woodworking and in the past has made a boat-crib, table, our entire kitchen cabinetry, our home, a thomas moser knock-off platform bed frame that is absolutely beautiful, and a number of other things. I am the one taking pictures most of the time but also do a good portion of the work, unlike the last guitar haha! I really enjoy woodworking and plan to keep manipulating wood into works of art such as guitars and other things.