Sweet! They are hiring! My doctor recently told me that now that I'm retired, I "need to reinvent myself"...

YOur watching Curling eh?-- and your still awake????So, anyway...
I’m currently watching the Curling World Cup - Sweden vs. Canada.
It rocks!
Get it?
It rocks?
Ha! I kill me!
YOur watching Curling eh?-- and your still awake????

Trying so hard to be like my man @Hackmaster . I still need a plunger, and the perfection of shape is not there, but maybe one day!!
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Thanks! I will check it out. However, I still have to give the H man props for getting his shapes free hand!Make a guide template for the router if you want perfect shape cavities...
Understanding Guide Bushings
So anyway, the cutting is done, and I am filling this baby up with a Tom Anderson PH1- neck and Dimarzio Super Distortion-T bridge. They will both be wired to spkit. This should be interesting
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Yer makin' me blush, Ray! Thanks.Trying so hard to be like my man @Hackmaster . I still need a plunger, and the perfection of shape is not there, but maybe one day!!
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Ray, another secret to good routering is to not eat the whole elephant in one bite.
In other words, don't set your bit full depth and try to rout out the whole hole LOL.
Also, like Hack said, make your cutout line and rout out the general shape and get close to the line without going " outside" it. Leave a little bit and rout out the hole with the router set partially down as far as you want full depth to be. Then take a break, set router a little deeper and go at it again. Repeat as many times as needed to get to full depth and then you can eventually just ever so gently clean up your edges.
Ever since I first put a router bit in a Drill press in the 8th grade wood shop to make cutouts for my skateboard wheels on a deck I was building,, I have always thought the router was the coolest darn wood shaping tool ever.
Nice project Ray!
Yep, that is a perfectly fine pick guard grade route.
Perfect example of why I have previously stated I am blown away by Mr. Hack free range routing.
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