1958-MODERNE template set

- Pics to come - CAD drawings are for showing how all lines up and what this set contains -

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Most probably this "modernistic style" guitar never left the planing stadium, seems even not a prototype has been made. Gibson offered this guitar type for the first time in the 1980s, using the wave-shape for the e-cavity: this we have used for our template set.

A patent drawing exists, but not more details, so this is our re-engineered "what-if-version", combining the vintage aspects and dimensions known from Les Pauls, Flying V´s and Explorers. From the patent drawing we took the info of the neck-body transition to be at the 17th fret position as well as the headstock shape.

All templates are available individually, please ask if interested in an partial upgrade of your existing set from other source than ours.

These templates are laser-cut to highest precision, material: 6mm birch-multiply

The BODY SET contains the following templates/parts:

1. template for body outline with main humbucker routs

2. template for top-outline with humbucker-leg + e-cavity routs

3. pickguard template (all holes for screws and for the switch are positioned with an undersized diameter so you can drill up easily according the hardware you are going to use (US imperial or Asian/Euro metric).
A drill sized 3/8" for drilling the holes for the CTS pots you can find here.
A drill sized 1/2" for drilling the hole for a Switchcraft toggle switch shaft you can find here.

4. template for the Jackplate

5. template for the cover of the e-cavity

Each body template has the (suggested) position for the bridge studs drilled (based on the "old-rule-of-18" scale) as well as the positions for the tailpiece-bushings (last you can use to screw the templates down to the wood).
At the top center of one of the two large body templates you can find a hole above the neck pick-up: this you can use for screwing these templates down to the wood as this part (incl. screw hole) will be later routed off when doing the tenon slot.

This NECK SET contains the following templates/parts:

1. template of Moderne-headstock: slim "hockey-head" or bold "fork-head", last available in two versions as found on real vintage EXs: once is at the left part slimer compared to the other (both exist in real); incl. holes for tuners positioned.
The hokey-head version contains the rout for the logo-inlay, the fork-headstocks had no inlay but were equipped with an embossed Gibson-logo (like found on the V), position engraved.
This templates does not end at the nut position but reaches into the 1st fret location for better routing the area of the transition headstock->1st fret.
Nut position for best positioning (partly) cut out.
A drill sized 11/32" (8.7mm) for drilling the vintage sized hole for the tuner bushings you can find here.

2. template for neck side profile incl. 17degr. headstock angle
Back (headstock, heel, neck) is done oversized for final adapting (sanding) according your actual project.

3. template for routing the long tenon to the neck

4. template for doing the vintage old-rule-of-18 scale incl. position of the dots
This template indicates the nut position as well as center marks for excellent positioning of the fretboard dots; the slots are set to (a bit less than) 0.5mm / 0.019" width so you can use a regular razor blade for marking the slot positions precisely to the fretboard, then do the fretslots with the fretting equipment of your choice.
Vintage sized fretwire you can find here.
Vintage style truss rod set you can find here.

5. template for sizing the fretboard
This template is for tapering a fretboard to the vintage width; taper is set to the wider side of vintage correct fretboard widths (1st fret 43,5mm), but it is flexible due to the lengthwise oversized geometry of this template: you can move it down and will result in a smaller width of the final board. Just check the template for your desired width at 1st fret and move this point to the according part of your fingerboard and rout flush.

6. template for doing the 2.0 (EX & Flying V) + 4.0 (Les Paul) degree cut to the neck
This is a combined template for doing the typical neck angle cut to the side of the neck for a Flying V and Explorer as well as to a vintage Les Paul.

7. SAVE: this set comes with a pearloid 3/32" side dot set for free plus free stock material of rolled vinyl for the back cover.
3/32" drill bit for side dots you can find here.

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