Recess Session

I've now done the basics of the recesses around the cavities - not quite deep enough yet but that will be done very carefully once I've cut the covers, to ensure they fit flush with the surface of the body around them. The work so far was done with a Stanley knife and steel rule to scribe the edges, giving a nice straight line (which mostly worked!) and then careful chipping with a small chisel to remove a couple of millimetres of wood. The plywood is fairly crumbly below the surface veneer and splits easily, so I was even able to do some parts by carefully scraping with the chisel by hand.

General view:

Close-up:

Each one has slightly irregular widths around each side, since they're all quite close to the edges of the body - so the recess is narrower on the side that's closer to the edge, then wider on the other sides where possible to give a larger surface area to glue down the covers.