I am just about finished up with my guitar building class at "Ct Valley School of WW'ing Insanity" (ok well, 'insanity' really isn't in the title) and thought I'd post up the results thus far. It is a Telecaster Custom out of swamp ash, with a quarter-sawn maple neck and rosewood fingerboard.
The only glue-ups are fingerboard to neck--the body is one honkin', big piece of ash (hmm can I say that here? Mods be gentle). There was one other glue-up, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
We got the body and neck material all jointed and planed to thickness, so none of that drudgery. Here is the body after going through the bandsaw.
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I missed the neck bandsawing, but here is a view of the neck after it was routed with the template (also missed the template photos).
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Body routed with the pattern matching bit
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Neck and body yearning to be together forever in harmony. Or something.
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The Telecaster custom has a pretty big body cavity, which in retrospect seems rather excessive, but that was what Fender did. Outline of the cavity.
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Drillpress work to cut down on router work
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And final rout of the body cavity
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Oblique shot showing how much material is gone. Looks like a photo of one of those canyons out in Nevada or Utah
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