We needed to build templates and route for controls etc. I know i didnt invent this method, i think its a fairly common approach. Guide your flush bit router around our templates without second guessing. You could just tape the binding in place on the actual body, but that wastes tape and still doesnt hold as tight as youd like. How to make guitar templates project electric guitar. The pdf only prints out what will fit on a single page, and what you get is whichever part is showing on the screen. These are 12 thick mdf routing templates designed to cut all body cavities including the neck mortise, pickups, control cavities and control cavity plates. Are you in love with music, but arent able to play any instruments. You need to print four pages, each containing all of one corner of the body. Guitar parts center makes and sells custom parts and guitar building tools. Jun 29, 2014 i have saved all guitar plans i have ever come across. A new way to make a humbucker pickup routing template. Perfect for the full time luthier or part time novice guitar builder. If youre going to build a great guitar, you need great tools.
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The red lines are fixed they represent the standard parts of a guitar. Ill try to copy my correct strat body templates to files. This is actually part 4 of our how to do fabric a finish on your guitar body. Nov 27, 2015 a new way to make a humbucker pickup routing template november 27, 2015 december 31, 2015 araz ive always had a miserable time making humbucker routing templates, they are never perfect like the cncmade ones that you can buy. Body index template in order to rout the neck pocket and pickup cavities, the routing templates need index holes outside of the body profile, since there are no other places for concealable index holes on the top of the guitar. This site uses functional cookies only no tracking, nor 3rd party cookies, nor analytics. Aug 22, 2017 in this video i show how i make templates for guitar bodies and how i fix imperf. Tinycaster, suhr modern, ibanez jem, esp explorer, bigsby, sg, telepaul jr. They are exact matches to our carved top perimeter and our 1959 exact replica.
Preforming binding before gluing makes life easier when you come to those sharp bends. 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. I use a system where the outline and cavities are on separate physical templates. I downloaded a zip full of guitar plans, and printed out a jazzmaster plan. Template for guitar design lospennato electric guitars. This is part 1 of a complete series on making an electric guitar at my home.
Every stage of the template is created in house, from cad to cut. They are not necessarily fun to make but will definitely make the guitar building process faster, safer and produce more accurate and cleaner cuts. For full template sets, i chose 12 mdf as a good balance between extra thickness say no to 14 templates. Then, grab a sharp pencil and trace the template s outline onto the blank.
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