Flattening the back

With the ribs done it is time to continue with the plates. I had already glued the two halves of  both plates together so I could start flattening them out. I started with the back. It was already pretty close I just needed to remove some glue from the joint and come chipping left from my rough flattening earlier. There's some nice figure in the back.

Many luthiers seem to carry the same operations in parallel to both the front and the back. I don't know yet how I will do this. Somehow doing one first and then the next seems logical to me. Maybe since I rarely work for more than an hour a day.