Here's a close up. Very keen to see what kind of tones I get out of that yellow stripe. Hopefully it's more "Mean Mr Mustard" than "Big Yellow Taxi". I've planed the edges and squared it off, but I'm going to let it sit for a bit longer before I get into routing a neck pocket.
But anyway, the more exciting stuff - I hit up the kids at the big blue shed to print off some A2 CAD drawings, which took a couple of attempts because I didn't allow for the margins on my first go, and everything was out by about 2.5%. Then it took a decent chunk of time to very carefully cut out my shapes with the good scissors and get them laid out on some MDF:
If anything, doing the rough cuts on my (newish) bandsaw was a bit quicker. Or that might just be that apparently cutting shapes on a bandsaw is an absolute joy, so the time flew by. Something about that skinny little blade slicing through wood like butter is weirdly satisfying.
So here are the template pieces arranged together somewhat like an actual guitar. Albeit a monstrous chimeric blend of a few different designs. It's got a few more pieces than your average. In short, it will have a plywood core, and anodised aluminium wings with more plywood sandwiched in between them.
Ergonomically speaking, the Andreas Shark is the biggest influence, though I won't have quite as much contouring, or the super slick aluminium fretboard. Then there's the Iceman horn, and a similar top horn that I'm hoping will prevent neck dive, given the lighy body/long neck. The rest is "Rick-Toone-on-a-budget". If this works out, I might make a future variant with a standard neck, carbon fibre sheets and some nice Queensland Maple I have sitting around.
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