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Permalink Reply by Brett Morgan on July 15, 2010 at 2:09pm

Nice work Tracy, all done with a scroll saw? I'm guessing that you rubbed pencil on the back of the paper and traced over it onto the masking tape?

Brett

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Permalink Reply by Micah Haley on July 16, 2010 at 6:17am

Just do a google image search for "f-hole" and pick your favorite design.

Save the image, and print at different sizes till you get the scale you want.

I used spray mount to put one of my prints on poster board, then cut out the hole shape with an exacto making a somewhat durable stencil that could be used multiple times.

You could get fancy and use wood, plastic or metal for a more permanent stencil.

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Permalink Reply by Tracy Kennedy on July 16, 2010 at 6:55am

Not exactly. After I printed the template, I cut the design out with an xacto knife allowing the design to fall free and discarded it. What I had left was the paper where the design once was. Make sence? I applied masking tape to the ply I was using for the soundboard, layed the paper on the tape, lined it up, then using a sharpie I filled the design back in. The masking tape also prevented tear out of the plywood fibers. Oh yes all on the scroll saw

Brett Morgan said:

Nice work Tracy, all done with a scroll saw? I'm guessing that you rubbed pencil on the back of the paper and traced over it onto the masking tape?

Brett

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on July 19, 2010 at 3:39pm

I print mine and stick it to the wood with spray on adhesive. Works well.

Tracy Kennedy said:

Not exactly. After I printed the template, I cut the design out with an xacto knife allowing the design to fall free and discarded it. What I had left was the paper where the design once was. Make sence? I applied masking tape to the ply I was using for the soundboard, layed the paper on the tape, lined it up, then using a sharpie I filled the design back in. The masking tape also prevented tear out of the plywood fibers. Oh yes all on the scroll saw

Brett Morgan said:

Nice work Tracy, all done with a scroll saw? I'm guessing that you rubbed pencil on the back of the paper and traced over it onto the masking tape?

Brett

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Permalink Reply by Tracy Kennedy on July 20, 2010 at 12:05am

I know that works well, but I havent had any spray adhesive to use. This way atleast the template is reusable. Not that I would want to cut that shark out again though

Paul Doug said:

I print mine and stick it to the wood with spray on adhesive. Works well.

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Permalink Reply by Brian "Pork Pie" Anderson on July 20, 2010 at 12:35am

Cleaned...

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Permalink Reply by Tracy Kennedy on July 20, 2010 at 12:53am

Slick!

Brian "Pork Pie" Anderson said:

Cleaned...

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Permalink Reply by Ivo on October 25, 2010 at 2:32am

I created a bunch of sound hole templates and put the images here:

http://ivop.free.fr/guitarb/#soundholes

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Permalink Reply by Jim Conley on October 26, 2010 at 7:07am

you can try here for some download templates

http://www.scalelength.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=document_gen...

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Permalink Reply by Billy Hill Guitars on October 26, 2010 at 4:07pm

I like to think outside the box. lol . How about these?

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Permalink Reply by Michael R Cossey on October 26, 2010 at 10:58pm

Really Cool ! templates, and I was wondering....how much difference does it make where you place you soundhole? and what about it being on the top side of the CBG?

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Permalink Reply by BenBob on October 27, 2010 at 10:39am

Here's another soundhole style, and I made a few different sizes. Hope this helps.

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