October 10 - progress and otherwise.
Here is the headstock.  Looks good from here.  You can see a few minor defects.
But here you can see the defect on the bottom is too severe to use.  Oops.  I had to remove the top lamination.

 
here I am heating the wood and slipping a knife under the blackwood laminate.
Yucch!  Melted glue.  Yicch!
This is the new laminate, not glued in this picture.  (it actually is .....)
This is the maple layer after the melted glue has been scraped off.  From the edge (which is all you will see when it is covered with blackwood) curly maple gives a sort of shimmery effect.
A bouquet of clamps just for you!
Back to the main event.  This is the top & back.  Braces have not been glued onto the soundboard yet.
Gluing the braces onto the soundboard.  Sides and back also in background.