Submit your Guitar Body and Neck Templates Here (Organized)

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Submit your Guitar Body and Neck Templates Here (Organized)

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I have been wanting to do this for a while now, but I finally got my act together. I know many of us have acquired different guitar templates over the years and I wanted to make a thread where we could share them. Try to submit templates that are to scale so we can just take them and print them full size. Note: Please check all templates for accuracy. We can't guarantee every template so check carefully before you build your guitar.

Fender Guitar Bodies
60s Stratocaster
Telecaster Body Template
SuperSonic guitar with fixed bridge
51 Body
72 Custom Deluxe
Fender Jazz Bass Body
Strat Bodies
Telecaster Thinlines
P Bass Comparison

Offset Fender Bodies
Mustang Body Template
Jazzmaster Body Template
Fender Toronado
TeleMaster
Jag-stang Body outline :twisted:
Jaguar Bass
Jaguar_Jazzmaster
Fender Swinger :twisted:


Non-Fender Guitar Bodies
59 Les Paul
LP Junior Single Cut
LP Junior
Mosrite Ventures II
58 Gibson Flying V
Dano DC 59
Gibson Explorer
Gibson Firebird
Gibson SG

Necks/Headstocks
50's strat neck
60's strat neck
50's P Bass Neck Drawing
Fender Headstocks
Fender XII Headstock

Pickguards
Jazzmaster pickguard
Strat Pickguards
Tele Deluxe Pickguards
Fender XII Pickguard
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TB 500 Body Template
The templates are in .ai (2 for the body 1 pickguard) and one .cdr (which if I remember correctly is a TB 1000 though I no longer have anything to open it with so....it may just be more TB 500)
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Post by Addam »

No need to thank me- I stole them all from various websites anyway!

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Can anybody tell me how to print these full size on A4 paper?
I did try a local printers, they wanted £200! But that was obviously on larger paper.
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AddamInsane wrote:No need to thank me- I stole them all from various websites anyway!

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Can anybody tell me how to print these full size on A4 paper?
I did try a local printers, they wanted £200! But that was obviously on larger paper.
There's a guy over on TDPRI(JWELLS) that tells how to do right in Adobe.You print it in quarters then tape them together.On a related note, that printshop sure has a high opinion of it's self.You can print those over here at Kinkos for 5$ each,

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Post by toez10 »

I will probably never build a guitar from scratch, but a huge thanks for posting this. It's a pretty fantastic resource!
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Post by taylornutt »

Does anyone have some headstock templates? I have one on my Supersonic pdf but that's it. I have one for the original Starcaster(cock-stock), but it's not to scale. I am trying to figure it out. I am contemplating designing my own headstock base on the Jaguar, Swinger and original Starcaster headstock shapes.
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plopswagon wrote:How about this?
Nice. Thanks! Do you have a list of whats shown?
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Post by taylornutt »

I got one just like that from AddamInsane that has them labeled. I will try to post all the new stuff later tonight.
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cooterfinger wrote:
plopswagon wrote:How about this?
Nice. Thanks! Do you have a list of whats shown?
i don't...
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Post by taylornutt »

Got some new templates to post mostly necks, headstocks, and a couple bodies. I plan to reorganize the links in future to make it easier to find what you are looking for.

50's strat neck
60's strat neck
50's P Bass Neck Drawing
Fender Headstocks
P Bass Comparison
TeleMaster
Fender Toronado
Fender XII Headstock
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Office Depot $2.99 for a 24" x 30" sheet. You can email them the file or bring in a Cd/disk. I asked last night, they said they can print out of Adobe, but not AutoCad. I don't know if those Adobe pdf will print to scale though, can anyone confirm?
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Post by taylornutt »

I took the templates of the Supersonic, Mustang, Jazzmaster and Tele to Fedex Kinkos and they printed fine.
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you just have to check them. sometimes they will have the output set to scale the document to the page size.
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check the print settings before printing for sure.
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Post by cur »

Does anyone have templates or dimensions for necks? At least dimension for standard 24", 24.75" and 25" and 25.5". I have fret chart scales, but not actual neck / fret board dimensions.

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Post by taylornutt »

I just posted the 50's and 60's strat necks. The Super-Sonic template also has the lefty 24" scale neck.
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cool.

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I emailed the templates to Office Depot, they pulled it up and printed it out for me. First one we tried was the Toronado, it was way off. He adjusted it and it looked great. I put a toronado template that I made from a actual toronado to double check it and it was wrong. I'm assuming those grids on the plans are supposed to be 1" x 1", when I measured it with a ruler I got 1 1/16" x 1 1/16" squares. Double check your squares, if they aren't 1" x 1", chances are it's to big. The guy charged me less then $3 for like 8 pages... I'll let the kids color em and hang em on the wall :lol: