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Permalink Reply by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker on February 13, 2009 at 3:38am

No pics, but you can also make more permanent templates out of thin plexiglass (like 3/32" or 1/8"), with a dremel. More effort, but they'll last longer (and hold truer to form) than cardboard. And they don't go to mush when you spill a bottle of beer on them. Or so a friend told me...

Permalink Reply by BP - RabidSalad - on August 15, 2015 at 4:52am

You can also add hand drawn templates and shape templates as well. 

For shape templates like banjo heads I've printed out a template downloaded from the internet.  I use a hobby knife to cut along the outside of the pattern and where the peg holes are to go.  Leaving tabs along the edge so that you aren't just cutting out a large hole.  Cut alongside the first cut so that the end result is like a line drawing cut-out of the edge of the pattern.  Then use a sign makers method of filling a cloth bag with chalk, lay the pattern down and tap the pattern with the chalk bag.  When removed you have your layout or pattern transferred to the build.  Made a msitake, simply wipe and redo as may times as you like.

Permalink Reply by Bradley Small on August 31, 2018 at 6:15am

I just made these:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZQKfbMb5K7S1Biux8

Which I modified from these:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Guitar_headstock_outlines 

Which I reformatted to work with a 4" piece of 1x3 (3/4" x 2-1/2") for headstock material, assuming a 1-1/2" neck width. 

Printed them out and glued them to piece of plywood, then bandsawed and filed them to final shape. I just did these two rough cuts, they have yet to be routed. We'll see how they end up!!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/cFPiiNJ5zzwvZQtD7

Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on September 5, 2018 at 7:15pm

Kool idea