Hey everyone!
Decided to document the making of my telecaster, since I'm building it virtually completely 100% from scratch... Mostly i wanted to show everyone how I'm making my neck, but then Jack Wells beat me to it! Either way, mine will be a rosewood fretboard and a homemade truss rod, and information is never too much!
(the pre-construction part is covered in my other thread:
Telecaster Project)
So here we go:
Day 1 - Part 1 - Making the templates
Last week i managed to make the full body template on mdf, but still have to make the one for the neck pocket and neck pickup cavity. I first made sure that the one for the neck pocket had the same shape as the other one (i printed the Tdowns PDF, glued them on MDF and jigsawed/sanded to shape).
One on top of the other and...
...route to shape! Notice that i take half the height at a time (and that im using a bottom bearing bit for this....)
Having done that, this is how i made the neck pocket template:
This is very effective, since i used a router bit of the same radius as the curves on the pocket!
Tadaa!
I was very pleased with this template... But my moments of happyness stopped here...
(more to come)
Cheers
André Ripoll