OutKast Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 Here's what I did to make a good-ish Jazzmaster template. 1, find a pic of it on the net (must be a good photo, flat and straight on, not at an angle) and print it off - try Warmoth, they've got some pretty good images in teh bodies section fo their on-line catalogue. Ifound a pic of the body i want to make 2, decide scale length you want (you could maybe half it for convenience). lets say i want a normal scale of the neck for the bodie i want 3, Blow up the photo on a photocopier using A3 until the scale length of the photo matches your real-life scale length. this is where i get confused 4, Copy the body area (will probably take a few sheets of A3 which you'll need to stick together this i understand 5, You should then have a full size body shape which you can trace onto your template material and shape and this i also understand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyderek Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 and your question? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutKast Posted April 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 well i get stuck at # 2 and 3 how do i determine the scale i want??? Lets i want to build a tele what a standard scale and how do i photocopie it to the right size?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpa Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 I guess I'm relatively lucky in that area. I have an ACAD program and use pre-existing drawings, hopefully drawn to scale, or I'll draw my own. I then email the drawing(s) to my buddy at work who has access to a 36" plotter. He prints it out for me and I give him smoked salmon and beer and let him play my guitar when it is done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdw3332 Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 Are you buying a neck? If so, that will determine your scale i.e. the distance from the nut to the 12th fret = 1/2 of your scale. If you have a picture of the guitar with the neck on and you know the scale, you can then determine the actual measyrements if the body. For instance, on a Tele with a 25 1/2" scale, you know that the distance from the nut to the bridge = 25 1/2" and therefore 1" on the picture will = X" on the actual body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyderek Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 well i get stuck at # 2 and 3 how do i determine the scale i want??? Lets i want to build a tele what a standard scale and how do i photocopie it to the right size?? well you need 2 points on the guitar for which you know the distance apart they're supposed to be, like the nut and 12th fret (the bridge gets a bit tricky on small pics) then you figure out your multiplier from that... but photocopiers aren't the best.... cad and a printer.... or one of those hudge plotter printers they have a copy shops.... would be the best way to go... i think guitarbuild.com had a cad file for a jaguar..... same thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutKast Posted April 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 how do i do a cad??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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