Today I am finally putting cutter to wood. In this picture a 3/4" PDF template that I made from a Ron Kirn master template is attached by wood screws to an ALDER blank that came from The Guitar Mill. I trimmed the blank "pretty close" on my $99 Delta bandsaw. With my little miniature router I can only take about 3/8' of wood off per pass. That's okay, it will just take a bit more time - give me more time to think things through so I don't inadvertently make a lefthanded Buttercaster. (I wonder if anybody has ever done that?)
More pictures later as this whole thing progresses.