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If its being cut by laser then I would suggest that you have it made in thick plexiglass/acrylic instead of MDF. The reason being that its much more of an advantage having clear templates, to avoid defects in timber and to aid alignment.

Dont forget that if you're pin routing, and your pins are in 0.005" increments tehn after resharpening bits, you may need to use the next pin size up as the diameter of the cutter will have decreased.

Something thats worth everyone's while - befriend a local lacquer manufacturer if you have one. My local guy will mix a litre of any colour spirit stain that can dream up for less than ten dollars. And if I dont think its close enough, he'll tweak it until it is. When I am happy with it, he gives it a code so that it can be duplicated at any point in the future.

As has been said, there looks like plenty of contact area but it looks really short-grained. My choice of adhesive would be titebond. In order to minimise slip I would dry fit the joint and drill two 2mm holes in areas where there is plenty of beef on both parts. In the UK our cocktail sticks ( I believe you call them toothpicks happen to be exactly 2mm in diameter. Spread enough glue onto each part and fit together, placing the cocktail sticks into the holes at the same time, and clamp the joint as tightly as possible. The cocktail sticks prevent the joint from slipping, and fill the holes simultaneously. Clean up the excess glue while wet, and after the joint has cured, use wet n dry paper to flat the area in prep for refinishing (you wont get away with not refinishing unless you're not too fussy about detail). Fortunately, from the looks of the pic, the colour is black so it should only need a very wuick blow in with a colour gun or airbrush before final coats of lacquer.

Done. Thanks.

I'd like to donate, which link do I use??

Hi guys, I just joined the forum as I just cant stay away from guitars. While at school in the UK I enrolled on an evening course making classical guitars, and after completing my A-levels, went to the London College of Furniture for four years to study Classical guitar making in the Musical Instrument Technology Dept. From there I set up my own business (specialising in solid-body electric guitars)and after two years was poached to become the Head of Custom Shop and Production Manager for Patrick Eggle Guitars in Coventry, then Birmingham in the UK. I became a little disillusioned with the way the business was run and my working conditions so resigned in 2000 to work in a totally unrelated field. My interest has become re-kindled recently and as I work with CAD all the time now, fancy doing a bit of design/build again. I understand that there is a section here for drawings, etc so would be interested in seeing that. Do I ned to donate a few ££ somewhere?? Quite happy to do that if someone can post a link. Ive worked on literally hundreds of instruments and have been involved at ground level with the production environment. Anyway, that enough about me, just thought I'd introduce myself and ask about the donation thing. Phil