Now I got the design I bought a 9 millimeter thick piece of beech plywood for the template and a brand new jigsaw with more precision and power, so I could also cut the body blank with it later on.

Since the template is used to guide the router after cutting the body with a jigsaw, it is very important that the contour of the template is as smooth as possible! So I took great care in sawing out the template. I bought a sawblade especially for cutting plywood which is also very small to get round curves easily. When I had sawn the template, I started sanding and filling the contours of it. Every once in a while I got back to it to feel, sand, fill, sand.. and so on.

This week I learnt that building a guitar is about being a perfectionist (which I am) and being patient (which I am most certainly not). Also great care and a slow working pace help to get it right.

On Saturday I ordered the body blank from Vox Humana, two separate pieces of honduras mahogany measuring 50 x 17,5 x 4 cm.