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DODGE
16-11-2014, 08:55 AM
Hi Guys
Just ordered the TLA-1 Ash body can't wait for it to arrive.
Can anybody tell me where I can get a Tele headstock template I can print
off for shaping the headstock when she arrives.
I have searched with the Google machine for hours, and have come up with
a couple, but they don't seem to be to the correct scale when I print off.
Anybody know where I can get an authentic Tele one from, or does anybody have one, happy to pay for
a template as well.

Dodge :cool:

WeirdBits
16-11-2014, 09:46 AM
The GuitarPlansCollection (https://sites.google.com/site/guitarplanscollection/home) has a lot of useful templates, including a good selection of F-type headstock variants (https://sites.google.com/site/guitarplanscollection/pdf-files/fender-ish/Fenderheadstocks.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1).

Make sure your printer is set to not 'scale image to fit' or manually set it to 100% scale, otherwise you'll have sizing issues. Usually there is a 1" guide on the templates you can measure to check the scale. You may actually have to tweak the scaling +/- a few percent to match your headstock's size and spacing.

DODGE
16-11-2014, 10:29 AM
The GuitarPlansCollection (https://sites.google.com/site/guitarplanscollection/home) has a lot of useful templates, including a good selection of F-type headstock variants (https://sites.google.com/site/guitarplanscollection/pdf-files/fender-ish/Fenderheadstocks.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1).

Make sure your printer is set to not 'scale image to fit' or manually set it to 100% scale, otherwise you'll have sizing issues. Usually there is a 1" guide on the templates you can measure to check the scale. You may actually have to tweak the scaling +/- a few percent to match your headstock's size and spacing.

Thanks for that WB
The F Type headstocks is the best link, the other one I have seen before and it talks about Terry Downs, when I click on the link it takes me nowwhere. I have tried Terry downs links before, but they just don't work for me, maybe my machine. Anyway the F Type link is Brill, thanks a lot.
D

wokkaboy
16-11-2014, 10:56 AM
Hey Dodge,
I downloaded this pdf from the link has a heap of different tele and strat headstocks,
instead of view I said download and keep file, it's too large for me to upload (20kb limit)

download the "Fender headstocks, again, but different" link has a a few variants

DODGE
16-11-2014, 11:12 AM
Thanks Guys
Just downloaded one and printed her off and it's exactly to scale give or take a bees nose hair. Just stuck it to some real thick card and about to cut it out. Soon as I get my TLA kit will cut out the head stock. I'm gonna do it by hand with a coping saw rather than the jig saw, and go reeeeal slow.
Thanks for the help
Dodge in Oz:cool: