You clamp it like that?

To glue them...you use the red thing, which is a thermal blanket and lay the pieces of wood in between, then you heat them and bend them over the mold.

After the linings are bent, notches need to be made in order for them to be able to support the rib structure.

Then you glue, using some of the worst smelling glue ever. Hot hide glue (...yes, the hide of an actual animal. It's pretty nasty, but works very well for violin making.

after gluing the linings, it was the fun part...covering it in clothes pins to clamp them on.



If you're counting...there should be exactly 57...but, I was in a hurry when I was counting. :-)