Shaping the blocks

Once the mould was out I could shape the blocks. The corner blocks were shaped using a gouge for which I had ground the bevel on the inside. I used the chisel already to shape the corner blocks after having glued them on the mould. The gouge did most of the rough work. I then finished the blocks using my finger plane. The upper and lower blocks were shaped using a wide chisel and a block plane. Shaping the blocks was nice work. The spruce was easy to work with and I think I got nice curves on all the blocks.

Before shaping the lower block I drilled a small hole though the ribs and the block. This is the pilot hole for the endpin hole. It might have been better to drill a bigger whole already now, but since i haven't bought the endpin yet, I wasn't sure how big a hole to drill.