Step 5 Cut the guitar shape.
With much trepidation I picked up the jigsaw and cut a small corner off the wood with a slight bend. The new jigsaw handled it with ease with a blade meant for hard timber.
The router stage was the next worry. Lots of different advice on YouTube. Cut small depths at a time, cut in one big bank, don’t cut into exposed grain – climb cut etc etc.
Well that advise crystalised : to one big cut with a large router bit with a bearing bearing at each end and do climb cuts to the exposed grain. The cutting direction was drawn on the template.
First I cut the “into” section and all worked perfectly. (What was I worried about – again?)
Now the climb cuts – well suffice to say I never got the hang of it. The blade just grabbed and bounced along the timber. Luckily no real damage but then:
I gave up on the climb cuts and just slowly routed into the wood the normal direction. It worked fine and I believe it was because of the density of the timber after doing some more web research.
A bit of a rub with belt sander recovered the tear-out
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