So today has been interesting to say the least.

I managed to find a perfectly sized bit of scrap aluminium from my baritone build, and rough out the bridge with bandsaw and drill press.



Then I set up my router table and got cracking on the finer detail. It was all going swimmingly until the aluminium started to heat up with the friction. The glue on my double sided tape did what you expect glue to do, and the template shifted, digging out a bunch of metal and chewing up a bit of the template itself.

But not to worry. Nothing a bit of timbermate and some detail files won't fix.



So with that on the back burner, I filled the original screw holes in the neck - check out the alignment!



After leaving the bridge for a few hours in the sun, I filed back the timbermate and got stuck into round two, making sure I took regular breaks to let the heat out.

This time with a much better result - the internal rout will only need very minimal cleaning up. As for the external rout...

I pushed the work piece in, and the router immediately bit, spinning the bridge 90 degrees and pulling my hand with it, through the spindle. I'm not sure how bad the damage is, but it's a painful lesson that you can never be too safe with an exposed blade spinning at 2000rpm.



I'll be taking a good hard look at my personal safety standards, and working a lot harder to ensure I'm never holding my work piece in an unsafe way. D:

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