# Alkmaar Panorama
That wraps day one! Excited to get a body shape cut out with the correct dimensions already. I’m absolutely wiped, the hotel is too warm to sleep well in, and cycling back and forth to Heiloo is not…
That wraps day one! Excited to get a body shape cut out with the correct dimensions already. I’m absolutely wiped, the hotel is too warm to sleep well in, and cycling back and forth to Heiloo is not…
Here’s a drawing of my body on a big sheet of paper. This is when I learned how to do the layout, which is all based on the centerline, and where the neck meets the body.
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…
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.
The template is glued onto the body so that I can use the table router to cut it down to the final shape.