Bill,
There are several ways to do this. The way you mentioned works fine and gives a good clamp surface under the bridge. I have found that I like to glue the bridge on after the top is partially glued on. To get the first string to align with the edge of the fingerboard to the tolerances I like (the bridge is already drilled), I glue the soundboard to the front block and part of the way around the sides. I can then bend the soundboard up like the sole of an old shoe to get the clamps under the bridge area. This allows me a final inspection of the fingerboard action, the string alignment, and the fit of the important load bearing braces around the back half of the soundboard with the position of the soundboard set in its final position. Enough of the top is glued to basically fix the angle of the neck. Louis Aull -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
