Planing the back

It's time to thickness the back and top. Thickness sanders are expensive, and powered thickness planing will shatter the hardwood less than 1/8". That's ok, I want to hand plane this myself. First, I rough cut the shape of the guitar 1/2" oversided on the bandsaw. Second, I took a measurement of the thickness before I started hand planing the top. Third, I planed, and planed, and planed. I got some pretty serious tearout in places and this is where I decided that my plane blades were dull. Unfortunately, I didn't have a large enough stone to sharpen the blades easily. So, instead of creating a bunch of problems that would be difficult to fix I shelved the thicknessing for the day.