# Burl wood tops
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A stack of burl wood tops, some with live edges. These will be glued to the top of the body, but not on my guitar, I’m doing a single solid body. The downside is that my guitar will be quite heavy…
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# Table router
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I was initially very afraid of the table router, it takes peoples fingers off. But my finger count remains as it was before, and my guitar body is cut to size.
# Template attached
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The template is glued onto the body so that I can use the table router to cut it down to the final shape.
# Rough cut body
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The rough cut guitar body standing on it’s bottom edge on my bench. The shape is a sort of hybrid jazzmaster and reverse firebird.
# Shape marked for cutting
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After picking a body template, I drew it out on my blank, and then went to the band saw to rough cut it. Chestnut is heavy, and this was a large blank, so it was an unwieldy cut. Here’s a picture of…