Problem solved! I sanded very carefuly and the gap now is soooo small it's hard to see, I meassured like you said, the two outer strings to the bridge and that seems to be perfect.
I sanded the top of the body down to 600 grains then gave it the first treat of red tone which I received from England today. Most of it got as I wanted it, but I think I'll sand down the sides a little more since it seems darker there. Maybe I didn't get the sides as fine sanded as the top of the body. So sand sand and then sand again tomorrow. I like the red colour though
Picture just before the first coat of guitar toner:
Here the top of the body got one coat of red guitar toner:
Plan after coating is to give it a french polish with several coatings of shell laques.
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