Right, off to make a new mould for the guitar back. More posts when I’m finished with that.

So soon I have a big pile of joined veneers.

Now I need something to go onto the moulds. I’m kinda sorta following Making a Laminated Hollowbody Electric Guitar by Jim English, so I’m laminating 3 layers of 0.6mm veneer and one 1.5mm veneer. The 1.5mm veneer is the outer…   Read more»

And then an awful lot of copy-routing ensued.

This time we took the thickness of the lamination into account, and used a bearing router bit to reduce the first layer of the side mould by around 4mm (oh look, is that a top template I failed to mention…   Read more»

Woosh! Didn’t even touch the sides! Oh no, here they are.
Crudely cut lumps of MDF and plywood were copy-routed using the top template I failed to mention earlier.

 
Genius!!!
I’d always thought you’d be sanding and sanding to get the ridges smoothed out into the carve shape you wanted.
Filling it in is so much easier.