Electric Guitar Templates?

[pfriedl]

Hey all. I’m interested if the GF could be used to build an entire guitar body in layers.

I stumbled across this youtube video where a guy built a beautiful guitar with 12 layers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-59iqgcu3c

I know the GF is limited in cut size, so a design would need to be pieced together or the body shape built to fit the cutting area. I’m partial to the Strandberg Boden 6 body style myself, but I’m having a hard time finding vector templates. Router templates could be easily used - just cut and stacked.

Anybody else interested in building something like this?

[dklgood]

This is not an electric guitar template, but I think you would enjoy reading this post: Out Of This World Ukulele

Also, there have been projects shared here of ukeleles made totally on the Glowforge. Blown away by the things I can make!

[deirdrebeth]

I don’t know that anyone on here has built one from scratch, but a lot of decorating has been done.

Paisley Guitar

This one took me a while to figure out how i wanted to do it, since I couldn’t engrave the whole thing in one piece (it’s larger than the engravable area) and i didn’t want to try to line it up perfectly and either (a) trash the body if i messed it up and (b) waste an hour + engrave if step 2 wasn’t perfect. So I inset from the edges/hardware/pickguard and even though most of it is one large engrave (with a smaller engrave on the return (the part above the neck)), I was able to rotate the guita…

Looks like there are hundreds of straight on shots that style of guitar, so you should be able to grab one of those, and do a trace of it - then size it based on the specs.

[dhaykus]

Don’t know much about guitars but I found a site that is sharing a bunch of pick guard files that may be of use.

Pick Guard PDF Outlines

It may be of interest to someone.

[beerfaced]

@pfriedl

Strandberg Boden 6

I have never tried to create a real guitar but I ran a trace around that style. Maybe this will be helpful?

[beerfaced]

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[pfriedl]

Holy cow - well done! A trace is a good place to start. I know that neck and bridge position are critical because the distance from bridge to the end of the neck has to be an exact distance or your pitch will be off no matter what. That, and pickup placement.

But excellent start - I’ll have to dive into this and work on the scaling. Thanks!