Bandsawing the body shape

Blank joined pieces of hoop pine

                    During the last post, I talked about drawing acoustic guitar shapes.That involved freehand drawing of graceful curves.There is not too much measuring required, namely the lower bout, waist and upper bout. Check out the latest electric guitar shape that I drew from looking at a small picture. It won’t be an exact copy, but it is near enough to look the part. If you learn to make a guitar (electric), you will need to do lots of measuring to get the proportions right. This electric guitar project needed lots of straight line drawing and several opposite edges were either in line or parallel to each other. The key to getting the proportions right was to decide the scale length (string length) of the guitar, and all other measurements of the body had to relate to the fret spacings.

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