Now that my bender is put back together, I have been bending sides, and gluing on the end blocks to make what is beginning to look like the 4 instruments in this batch. In order: black walnut parlor guitar, sycamore guitalele, spalted sycamore tenor, curly ash concert.
Because by bender was out of action for a couple of days, I did other stuff that did not require the sides, like soundhole rosettes, getting the back braces glued on, choosing binding, etc. All of this has left the workbench a complete wreck. Hopefully now I can get back into a more ordered process.