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Winter Build Off 2022 - Get Ready

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You folks doing full scale drawings:
Is there I little template tracing involved, mostly freehanding and going off known/typical dimensions, a little of all of the above?
Translating small drawings where the aesthetics are easier to dial in, to full scale drawings (by hand) where the dimensions have to be right and make sense is something I need to work on.
 
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ctmullins said:
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It's the shading on the bridge that really pulls the design together.

Matt Liebenau said:
Looks good to me. I always liked the look of the Talman output jack plate with a spot for a potentiometer. Might look good here. Could give too much of an Ibanez vibe though.

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Yeah if that had room for three pots, and came in satin, I'd probably consider it. The control plate area was probably the hardest. I drew about a billion variations on a jazz shaped plate that all looked horrible and then decided to sort of swing it up parallel to the string path (because following the body shape was what was making it look weird), and then decided to make it a straight plate instead of a jazz shape, and sort of ended up somewhere in telecaster land.
 
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RichterScale said:
You folks doing full scale drawings:
Is there I little template tracing involved, mostly freehanding and going off known/typical dimensions, a little of all of the above?
Translating small drawings where the aesthetics are easier to dial in, to full scale drawings (by hand) where the dimensions have to be right and make sense is something I need to work on.
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I draw a centerline, mark out the neck width and scale length, and put a rectangular blob where the bridge and pickups go. Then I mark some rough limits (6-7" width for bouts, line about at the 12th fret to aim for with the upper horn, stuff like that). Then freehand the body shape to a rough idea. Then I finalize the bridge and pickup locations and draw them in to the rectangular blob, using real dimensions for real parts. Then I tweak the body. Body tweaking is usually just making curves smooth and maybe moving lines a quarter inch here or there. Most of the time that's it, but I wanted a pickguard and control plate on this design so I added those in last, and those were the parts that really chewed through erasers.

Then I trace the master drawing onto separate sheets of parchment paper (great stuff since it's translucent enough to trace yet super durable) and use those copies to make the templates.
 
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