Manufacturing of segmented wind turbine blade

A method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade having a profiled contour including a pressure side and a suction side, and a leading edge and a trailing edge with a chord having a chord length extending therebetween, the wind turbine blade extending in a spanwise direction between a root end and a tip end, the method comprising manufacturing a pressure side shell half and a suction side shell half over substantially the entire length of the wind turbine blade, closing and joining the shell halves for obtaining a closed shell, cutting the closed shell along a cutting plane (69) substantially normal to the spanwise direction of the closed shell to obtain a first and a second blade segment (70), each blade segment comprising part of the pressure side shell half and part of the suction side shell half, separating the first blade segment (68) from the second blade segment (70) and joining and sealing the first blade segment (68) to the second blade segment (70) for obtaining the wind turbine blade.