I have been doing the bracing and reducing the sides to the right thickness. Rosewood is very hard and makes reducing them with a sander very slow work. I have managed to glue all the bracing into place but still have lots of carving and sanding to do.
I do like to experiment with new ideas as often as I can. I tried a new idea of using bowed lengths of wood and foam fillers to hold down the bracing on the back while the glue dried. It does hold the bracing down very tight. The foam was cut into strips and then you just roll a strip until it has the required thickness to pack between the bracing and the wood bow. As in this picture.
I still have quite a way to go with reducing the sides I am also making the head and tail blocks at the same time.
I have fitted each brace where I think it should go, I am not measuring for precision, so each guitar I make will be different even if they look similar. It also allows me to see what works well and what is not quite so good. I am not following the Cumpiano & Natelson Guitar Making book but I am using it for reference. I have slowly but surely changed all the measurements in the book from imperial to metric.