Mold (Part 1)

When you bend the sides of an acoustic guitar, and when you glue the top you need a mold to put the sides in. The mold is simply two plywood cutouts of the guitar stacked with a few inches in between.

In order to create a mold from my plans, I traced and cutout a paper template of the body.



Then I cut four plywood pieces about 25"x12" which will become the mold.

Although this picture doesn't show it very well, it matches the plan pretty well....
So next (hopefully tommorow) I'll need to jigsaw/route the shape into one of them. After that I can use a follower bit with the router to make the other 3 copies...