I'm just gonna ignore...

...the fact that I haven't posted in well over a year, and act like I´ve been at it fulltime ;-)

So, today I finally got around to making a template for the body. My first idea was for the warmachine to kinda look like this:

(And I still may build this one day)...

But since I bought quite a good looking piece of mahogany (will post picture at some point), I've been starting to toy with the idea to make this a guitar with a more natural finish, so the texture of the wood would be visible. Another thing about this piece of wood is, that it's slightly to small for the original design, so I had to redesign it a little so it would fit. This gave me the opportunity to change the design a little, into an orignal shape, as opposed to the more familiar esp-esque shape:

After printing this design, came the (very precise, thus verrrrry annoying) part of cellotaping the prints together, 

and then cutting it into a life size paper version of the  body...

I stuck this to a piece of [no idea what it's called in English] (we call it MDF).

At this point I would like to extend my everlasting gratitude to my son for lending me his crayons (as you can see I even destroyed one. Uhm...have to talk to santa about that). I used these to to create an outline of the template on the MDF.

And then... at last... power tools! I cut the folowing template from the MDF:

Not bad for a couple of hours work.

Next time (hopefully within the year this time) I may have a story about routing the actual body using this template. Until then: Merry Xmas, and a very heavy new year!