How do i route guitar pickup cavities ultimate guitar. Recessed floyd rose routing system instrument building. This set of templates includes a body template, neck pocket template, neck template with vintage 60s headstock, and pickguard. Warmoth custom guitar parts custom bass and guitar bodies.
The closest size routing template size is an emg 40. If youre going to build a great guitar, you need great tools. The last step in the last episode was to double check all the measurements well in my experience double checking is never enough. Stewmac pickup routing template for humbucker, for. For those of you who are undecided, please see what others have written about my template. Guitar building templates, jigs and luthier tools by.
The emg route is slightly smaller than the dimarzio route. For singlecoil strat, musicmaster, mustang, and duosonic pickups. Apparently, at least one of them was scanned from a book. You should decide what pickup youre going to use first then look for the corresponding template. Jazzmaster guitar routing templates faction guitars. I made a wooden router template with internal dimension of 128mm x 97mm. We offer an unrivaled range of options on our necks and bodies, including standard and exotic woods, pickup and bridge routs, neck profiles, frets, inlays, binding, and more. I was not be able to print a full size template from a guitar body.
Now let us turn that printed plan into a template we can use for routing the body shape. Get a custom drawn guitar or bass wiring diagram designed to your specifications for any type of pickups, switching and controls and options. How to rout a pbass pickup cavity with templates youtube. This template set is for accurate routing the mortise and tenon joint on the acoustic guitar body and neck. Routing templates for pickups, battery boxes, and hipshot tremelo bridges. If you use screws to hold the templates to the wood youre routing, the holes will help keep everything lined up between templates. Pickup routing templates for humbuckers are for routing the body cavity and for the pickup cutout in the pickguard. Making a guitar body routing template part 1 gtr1ab. Printable templates for the telecaster custom, deluxe, thinline. The most beautiful guitars combined to one or just other model templates.
I want to thank those of you who have purchased my templates and the excellent feedback i have received from all of you. Better than paper drawings, these wont twist or stretch when tracing. For full template sets, i chose 12 mdf as a good balance between extra thickness say no to 14 templates. The auxiliary template for the pickup tab recesses is the part that the rest of the template should be physically built around, so assemble and glue this up first. I dont have a drill press, but ive got a cordless drill and a dremel that seems adequate enough to get the job done.
Routing a factoryquality cavity for a precision bass pickup. The pickup mounting screw locations must be very precisely marked. Pickup cavities, battery box cavities, kahler and wilkinson tremolos are some examples. Front, side, neck, neck pocket, pickup and electronics routing positions. Sstyle template set 62 style control cavity template set. Make warmoth your source for custom bass and guitar parts. Nov 27, 2015 a new way to make a humbucker pickup routing template november 27, 2015 december 31, 2015 araz ive always had a miserable time making humbucker routing templates, they are never perfect like the cncmade ones that you can buy. Keep checking the fit of the pickup that goes in there. Bass guitar pickup routing templates august 14, 2014 november 27, 2012 by best bass gear a bass guitar pickup template is nothing more than a guide so you can cut the proper sized holes in your bass guitar body to install your pickups in. All template orders include a set of our blueprints to go along with the templates. These lasercut acrylic templates are for accurately routing body cavities and plastic pickguards to accept humbucking sized pickups. Stratocaster hardtail guitar routing templates faction. Accurate template placement is easycrystal clear routing templates allow you to see the guitar body. Does anyone know where i can get some routing templates online to print out.
Countersunk holes for anchoring the template with flathead screws. Choose file import or ctrli and select the pdf file. Discussion in diy strat forum started by nodiak, feb 20, 20. With normal disclaimers, heres a drawing based on two different jpgs of 62 ri blueprints. Create perfectly shaped pickup cavities every time. Stewmacs improved templates are now thicker with smooth lasercut edges. Most of my templates start out as a drawing on 2d cad. Just wondering if theres any specific way to do this as an athome project. Any shape that can fit within the dimensions of the 120mm x 100mm window has the potential to be made into a template for repetitive or complex routing operations. Guitar building templates, jigs and luthier tools by potvin.
Humbucker pickup routing cavity template project electric guitar. Musiclily pro cnc accurate acrylic pickup routing template for standard jazz bass bridge pickup 5 out of 5 stars 6. A new way to make a humbucker pickup routing template november 27, 2015 december 31, 2015 araz ive always had a miserable time making humbucker routing templates, they are never perfect like the cncmade ones that you can buy. P90 pickup acrilic routing template forestguitarsupplies. Guitar parts center makes and sells custom parts and guitar building tools. The body and neck pocket templates include registration holes along the center line.
Used with the 19110022 router bit will produce the famous mortise and tenon joint compatible to cfm guitars. Go slow as that pickguard is closer to that humbucker rout than you think it is. Cut out of adhesive vinyl, these routing templates can be mounted on mdf and made as permanent or used on the specific wood. Schecter hellraiser c7 currently routed for emg 707s new pickups. Sep 06, 2011 a couple of days ago, where i described the first stages of turning a pdf plan into an mdf template, we got as far as having a printed plan. Download unless templates are marked otherwise, they are not provided by any brand of instrument manufacturer, in spite of being made in the likeness of known branded models. This is a humbucker top route pickup template for routing wood body for pickup installation. Need an inexpensive template to route for a bridge humbucker on a 2004 min strat which has sss routing. T hese routing templates are for professional or amateur builders. Meteor shape guitar routing template 2019 style with neck and pickup options. I have already used this template previously made from 12 hardboard so i know it works. A new way to make a humbucker pickup routing template. They are exact matches to our carved top perimeter and our 1959 exact replica. Routing guides for pickups, electronics, body cavities fholes, necks, and fretboards.
Here are the 10 routing template openings this set provides, along with our specific pickups they match. Fender telecaster guitar templates electric herald. Grainger ferrule block template insert 4 string bass, 19mm spacing. With a toprouted control cavity on sstyle guitar bodies, the following pickup routing options are available. I really need to know how to route the wiring and pickups etc. Shane withenshaw of rsw custom guitars shows you how to build a neck through body electric guitar from scratch. Gibson les paul guitar templates complete plans and routing templates for all.
Our routing templates are lasercut for smooth edged precision, and centerlines are laseretched when needed for correct placement. Thats the closest to the pickup size that i could find without being too big a opening. The dimensions were chosen to be used with a dremel 18 cutting tool and 60mm dremel routing attachment. Featuring a double cutaway contoured body and more versatile pickup and wiring options, it quickly became an icon that soared to the stratosphere. Bass best gear carries a wide selection of routing templates for the luthier, builder, or technician. Tinycaster, suhr modern, ibanez jem, esp explorer, bigsby, sg, telepaul jr. Debuting in 1954, it was a natural evolution to the telecaster.
Once the template is made, the shape is transferred to the body blank using a router with a pattern bit. I just open a pdf file and the only thing i get is a tiny part of the whole template. I have over 800 transactions with all positive feedback. Note that if p90 is used as a bridge pickup of a tstyle body, then the bridge must be a hardtail. There is a fellow on here who has made a template for the routings on a strat body a recent thread on building might check in with him for some tips. Warmoth has been crafting boutiquequality guitar and bass parts for over 30 years. Accurate template placement is easycrystal clear routing templates allow you to see the guitar body underneath. Diy humbucker routing with a dremel fender stratocaster. Mike plyler mdf pickup routing template cnc precision cut from 12. Routing guides for pickups, electronics, body cavities fholes, necks, and.
The point of using a template is to accurately transfer the shape from a piece of paper to the lumber that will become the guitar body. I bought an acrylic p2 template and made a working template out of plywood. Full scale pdf cutting templates for the gibson flying v, as well as cad files. Download unless templates are marked otherwise, they are not provided by any brand of instrument manufacturer. Producing a basic rectangular routing template is easy, however the specificallyradiused corners smaller than our bearingguided router. Just complete the guitar wiring diagram order form with your custom specifications and our designers will do the rest. Id like to route my mim 50s tele neck pocket to accommodate a humbucker, but im trying to save money where i can.
Add to cart add to cart add to cart add to cart customer rating. The bundle includes pdf and transparent png 300 dpi versions of every pattern. These are 12 thick mdf routing templates designed to cut all body cavities including the neck mortise, pickups, control cavities and control cavity plates. Video 10 how to build a guitar i make a pickup routing template and the rout the cavities. All my guitar building templates are either 12 or 34 mdf, with engraved center lines. Correct depth measurements are etched right on the template, so you dont need to puzzle over cavity dimensions, weve done that work for you. The few millimeters still left due to the point of the drill bit can be routed off at the end.
Warmoth custom guitar parts custom bass and guitar. This auction is for a basic template for use with a router to cut the. Simply align the templates laser etched centerlines with the markings on your guitar to get the placement right every time. Fender stratocaster guitar templates electric herald. The paper printout helps check that everything is sized and aligned, however doublechecking the ends for squareness with scrap or a ruler ensures were not building in any inaccuracies. Routing templates for bass guitar pickups, battery boxes, and other. Then cut out the cavity using a template and a flushtrimming cutter with shankmounted ball bearing. If you have built or modified a bass you can understand how nice it is to have a ready made template to perform pickup routing. Grainger ferrule block template insert 5 string bass, 19mm spacing. If you have you have your hss pickguard handy, you might take a stab at making your own template. Page 3 telecaster guitar forum printable guitar template pdf. This template set includes a main body template, neck pocket template, and a pickguard template.
Next were going to import the pdf plan into inkscape. The templates are precision made to make your work easy. Saw the stew mac one, but there was some discussion about it resulting. Electric guitar pickup routing template set includes. It is advisable to predrill pickup cavities before cutting them out.