Here's a great and detailed overview of joining the soundboard and bracing it.What a great resource! He goes through the whole thing in great detail, from examination of imperfections, down to the joining mechanisms. I'm going to take some notes here.
Materials
- A bookmatched guitar top blank. The "top blank" are the two plates that will be joined together to create the soundboard. "Bookmatched" just means that the pieces are mirrored and otherwise identical.
- Yellow glue. I'll have to return to the discussion of which glue is best.
- Brace and patch stock. This is the wood that will make the braces on the inside of the soundboard.
- Assorted cauls.
Tools
- A bench plane. This will be used to reduce the top to the proper thickness and to smooth the joint between the plates for better gluing.
- A shooting board. (See image.) Since I'm not going to be able to afford/house a proper jointer, we'll need a method to create the joint evenly. We'll return to reassess whether we need a shooting board a la Guitarmaking.
- Carpenter's framing square.
- Assorted clamps.
- Razor saw.
- Chisels and (woodworking) knives.
- It seems like having cabinet scrapers will be a good idea, too.
I'm beginning to understand, without ever having touched one in my life, why the planes come in different sizes. The larger numbers seem to be larger and are better suited for larger pieces of wood. Imagine using a tiny, tiny plane on a huge, huge wood surface. It is likely you are going to work unevenness into the wood.
And speaking of bench planes, check out this video about how to use one:
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