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Old April 27th, 2008, 08:46 PM   #89 (permalink)
BAW4742
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Maryland's Eastern Shore
Age: 51
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Originally Posted by PJ View Post
If you take the entire profile of the guitar down to meet the extra radius you put on there, then trace where you are, and profile the
add-on piece, it should match very closely, no? Then, use a 60s Tele
template to re-profile the body? That's where I thought you might go with this project. Which is why I thought some shops who build guitars might be able to make "quick" work of something like this, since they have those templates to cut blanks, which would be the secondary part of he job. Then, of course, the edge radius.
I'm with you.

I hadn't thoought about the body template. But it just occured to me - I stripped the guitar twice and the previous owner took it down at least once. Wonder how much wood is missing?

If I'm going to do all of this work I want it to turn out right.

I'm not concerned about making the templates. I just spent about 5 or 6 hours over the last week or so making templates of the neck on the 66. I used them to start cutting a rosewood neck I'm building.
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