So......the cat's alowed out of the bag
I mentioned that I know someone else who is starting to make templates, and at my initial proding has made me both body templates and fret slot templates for using on the table saw. This person is none other than our own Paul Davis, Patriot Guitars.
I haven't used them yet, but thought that I would at least post a picture of the goods. Hoping to use the fret slot template very soon.
You can decided to contact him if you want to. I won't disclose the price, that's up to Paul.
Anyway.....
Body Templates, an Olson SJ with cutaway (as per Bruce Dickey Planes, come back soon Bruce) and a 1954 Martin D-28, and two custom fret slot templates, one with 25.4 and 24.9 scale and one with 25.6 and 27.5 scale.
All parts are cut on his CNC on 1/4" acrylic. I know that Paul has several more body shapes all ready to go and adding the fret slot scales was very simple.
You can see that he has some nice features on his templates (other's may have the same, these are the only templates I've ever seen though) with the engraved scale lengths, zero fret (which is compensated as requested) and 14th fret marker and the sound hole location on the body templates.
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