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Guitar template sides 5cm about 100cm the step you create by cutting away a strip of one of the layers of the cardboard will allow it to slot in and. T hese routing templates are for professional or amateur builders. Figuring out the weight relief pattern for the explorer. Simply align the templates laser etched centerlines with the markings on your guitar to get the placement right every time. To make the template, start by making a full size copy of your plan, showing guitars body. When i saw the telelele on tumblr, i was inspired to start building one of my own. Guitar building is all about making mistakes and learning. Our standard bodies are made of 2 pieces of premium tone tapped wood, meticulously joined with special attention paid to grain matching. Nov 30, 2015 the template is on the bottom and everything in held down with doublestick tape. I show you how i go from a guitar design in software to a perfect 58 mdf template. How to build an electric ukulele when i saw the telelele on tumblr, i was inspired to start. Building a bravewood vintage guitar replica how to build an electric guitar or at least my version of it guitar making tutorials 5 electric guitar building videos how to build an electric guitar part 1.
Ill try to copy my correct strat body templates to files. Guitar parts center makes and sells custom parts and guitar building tools. In this video i show how i make templates for guitar bodies and how i fix imperfections on templates. The neck template is included, but you can use your own standard tstyle. There are dinky little guitarleles and enormous jumbo acoustics. Routing guides for pickups, electronics, body cavities fholes, necks, and fretboards.
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Assemble guitar and play to upload sounds to your guitar follow the steps in the online tutorial. I dont think its just a matter of converting a jpeg drawing into a pdf. Explorer body specstemplate solidbody guitar and bass chat. To make the template, start by making a full size copy of your plan, showing guitar s body. One is used with a traditional hand held router and the other is used with a table top router. Or, if you purchased a plan from, you can print out just the body pages and tape them together. This is part 1 of a complete series on making an electric guitar at my home. I scaled it up by measuring known distances, like pickup size or neck width or whatever, worked out the ratio in my case it 1. Gibson explorer guitar build diary project electric guitar.
Sstyle template set 62 style control cavity template set. I used a full scale strat copy neck an it looked too long for the body, so i set the neck a little deeper to the bridge which helped. Guitar bodies usa custom guitars guitar bodies are made from the finest hand selected tonewoods with attention paid to every detail. Aug 22, 2017 this is part 1 of a complete series on making an electric guitar at my home.