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jimmysux

Post subject: Templates

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:38 pm

Cocobolo

Joined: Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:49 pm
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Focus: Build
Status: Amateur

If you guys were to buy templates, would you rather have 1/2 - 3/4" plywood or 1/4" lexan and pay the increase in price for lexan?

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theguitarwhisperer

Post subject: Re: Templates

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:59 pm

Brazilian Rosewood

Joined: Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:35 pm
Posts: 2561
Country: USA
Focus: Repair
Status: Professional

For what, drawing outlines or routing templates for body shapes and cavity routes?
If drawing, I like the clear templates, for routing, I like to draw the outline with a clear template, then use a wood template as the bearing guide.

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jimmysux

Post subject: Re: Templates

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:15 pm

Cocobolo

Joined: Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:49 pm
Posts: 365
Focus: Build
Status: Amateur

routing templates

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Sandywood

Post subject: Re: Templates

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:56 pm

Cocobolo

Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:17 am
Posts: 381
First name: Michael
State: AR
Country: USA
Focus: Build
Status: Amateur

Lexan.

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cbrviking

Post subject: Re: Templates

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:40 pm

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Joined: Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:47 am
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First name: Jamie
Last Name: Unden
City: Lakeside
State: CA
Zip/Postal Code: 92040
Country: USA
Focus: Build
Status: Amateur

Thicker than 1/4", though. That's not much for the bearing to ride on.

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StevenWheeler

Post subject: Re: Templates

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:20 pm

Contributing Member

Joined: Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:01 pm
Posts: 1104
Location: Winfield, IL.

Buy the 1/2" plywood template. Use it to make a 3/4" plywood (or MDF) copy to use as a routing template and a 1/4" acrylic (plexiglass) copy to lay on your work piece to find the most appealing grain. When you mess up your routing template, you will have the original to make a new one.

Steve

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Jim_H

Post subject: Re: Templates

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:03 am

Koa

Joined: Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:41 pm
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Location: Bothell, WA USA
First name: Jim
Last Name: Hansen
Country: USA
Focus: Build
Status: Amateur

I make my own from Foamed PVC from Tap Plastics...

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Mattia Valente

Post subject: Re: Templates

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:10 am

Brazilian Rosewood

Joined: Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:25 pm
Posts: 2749
Location: Netherlands

Layout? Acrylic.

Routing? Trespa (phenolic), which I can usually pick up cheap or free at building sites. Scraps are big enough for full guitar templates, and it is tough as nails. Do not need transparent templates for routing, as indexing off scribed centrelines (or indexing points) works just fine.

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