I decided not to overthink the corners.  I will go pretty close to the lines as they are now. I will leave a millimetre or two at the corners and will refine those before it is time to add the purfling. Which should be pretty soon.

​I haven't been reading my earlier blog posts much. Now would be the time to have a look what I did the first time.

It's time to refine he corners. I am pretty happy how the lower corners turned out so I started on those. I need to figure out how to deal with the upper corners. I think they are too pinched. I don't want to touch the ribs any more but I hope I can improve the appearance by subtle changes to the back and front.

Some good progress today. I took out the transverse arching guides for the back and first roughly planes and gouged out the locations of the guides. I then removed some excess material with the gouge between the guide locations. This is still very rough but maybe good enough for the moment.

I wasn't quite happy with the shapes of the corners. As a next step I should finish the outside of the back before starting with the purfling.

I've had a bit of a break. No special reason, just other things to do. Today I sharpened my toothed plane and started refining the arching with it. These little planes can be pretty aggressive.