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Anyone have a smuggler's route dxf file?

Discussion in 'Tele Home Depot' started by neoj4zz, Nov 9, 2020.

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    neoj4zz

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    Hello everyone. Looking to do some different pickup configurations on a well broken in Highway1 Tele. My buddy offered to make a routing template. I'm looking for a smuggler's route dxf file to modify for different configurations. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!
     
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    Wildeman

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    You could make one pretty easy from a good head on picture like this. Screenshot_2020-11-09-07-28-29-1.png i should have done this to my Baja, that thing thought it was a '70s Les Paul.
     
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    neoj4zz

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    I've done some crude routes on others, but with all the modding I do, I figured it would be a whole lot faster and easier. If all else fails we will go off a tracing of an old pickguard and come in about 1/2 inch all around.
     
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    ThermionicScott

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    If the picture in the Duchossoir book is any indication, you could come up with a more elegant routing pattern by yourself. ;)
     
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    neoj4zz

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    Hah! Nothing is as crude as me manually moving a filtertron route to get it done.
     
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    GunsOfBrixton

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    This may get you started.
     

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    neoj4zz

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    Thanks so much! I'll check it out and report back with the results.
     
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    Does anyone know what the point is of leaving the wood around the pickup, and the two bits going toward the bridge pickup? Structural integrity?
     
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    Davecam48

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    Structural integrity?

    Of course!

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    neoj4zz

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    Some believe its where the tone resonates from. The mojo wood, lol.
     
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    scook

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    Not exactly what you’re looking for but here’s a picture of a Tele/Strat hybrid based off of a Strat swimming pool route. You can find plenty of pictures around of the large amounts of wood removed for a swimming pool route in a Strat.

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