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Mmm - I'm now considering getting a laser etching/cutting machine. Then I could do some really fancy templates for routing as well as use a laser etched logo design straight into the wood. I'm also thinking that a laser could produce some really sexy etchings onto plain wood bodies... Think paisley ...

Thanks for the comments (and compliments) guys. Building guitars is always a learning experience.

Cheers, Steve

Arnt Rian wrote:My opinion? Too much going on, please simplify

I'm thinking your right!

Cheers, Steve

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Jury is out as to which way to go at the moment. However I'm liking a number of the ways that you guys have done it and also considering a 'hybrid method' whereby I use Bob Gramann's method to put the lettering into an ebony or walnut inset that I then place into...

Can anyone suggest a tutorial on routing a headstock for a logo inlay? I want to use my name as a logo something like this image, but don't really want to use a transfer. I would like to rout the name out and probably fill it with coloured resin, the other smaller text could be transfers. Is this po...

I did re-rout the neck pocket, and it basically meant I had to make a custom template and it resulted in removing a 'smidge' more material at each side, probably 2-3 mm in total. Here's how it's starting to come together... Swamp Ash Body, Canadian Maple one-piece neck, Wilkinson Bridge pickup, Warm...

Thanks for the comments guys I'll post pictures soon.

Cheers, Steve

Hello for the first time to you all... I'm building my first T-Style guitar from a nice single piece of swamp ash, I've been working to a template and set of plans based closely on the original; everything is fine so far (apart from a little wood tear in the neck pickup rout, but that's under the pi...