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Patterning a new pick guard.

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There’s a lot of room inside this guitar but there’s no sound holes. Maybe I should put one in the pickguard.
 
Good thing I have extra material. My first Dremel setup had a fatal glue failure and I screwed up the part. Now I have to relocate things and try again. Before that I will make A special clamp to positively locate the router base without glue.

I used my 1950s Bruning drafting machine as a pantograph.
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I attached a plastic platten to the machine and then glued the router down and braced it with 1/8 inch steel wire and screws.
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Also I’m going to try a different cutter, because this one seems to leave a particularly poor finish.

I took a closeup picture of the carnage just as my camera decided to go dead so you’ll have to imagine it for now.
 
OK, it’s just like buying bikes. I can stop any time I want to. Right?

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Generic 2020ish “Fender” partscaster and a 1958 Silvertone Speed Demon.

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I had a gun that I did not like, a scope that cost a lot of money but I thought it was damaged, a bipod that had too many adjustments to be useful, and the protective case so heavy that the cost to fly it anywhere would be prohibitive.

I sold it all and turned the cash into these two new guitars plus a fancy Taylor guitar strap, Also a few other little goodies like lemon oil, a pot oiler, a new set of volume and tone pots, and knobs all for the Bobcat.

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