Blank piece of wood, ideally around 42mm thickness
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This tutorial is for Making a Guitar Body from a set of templates, these templates are readily available on the internet, we on occasion sell these ourselves.
Approximate time to do this is around 2hr's.
Place the template over the wood
Screw it down or fasten it with clamps
Using a pencil or pen, trace the inner shape of the cutout
Remove template for visual assessment.
Fit another template to the back and again trace shape.
Shape traced again for assessment
Stand the wood up and make sure everything is aligned correctly
Opposite view
First routing template being fitted to the body, it should have some recommended depths on the template