Headstock. . .

I cut the headstock last weekend as it came with a standard paddle head. I borrowed an electric jigsaw from a lass at work and I also bought a cheap coping saw. Me dad give me a hand as Ive never used a jigsaw before or a coping saw for that matter, I ended up using both.

I found a template for a telecaster headstock online, printed it off and traced around it.

I had a few practices on some old pine shelves (soft wood) and it didnt give me a lot of confidence as they weren't great attempts, but I got fed up with practicing so I bit the bullet and had a bash at it. The neck is made of maple (hard wood) so it was a lot different than cutting pine.



I used the jigsaw for most of it and the coping saw for the tighter curves, then sanded it down with some course sand paper then some finer paper.

I'm pretty chuffed with the result like, I thought I was gonna mess it all up but it ended up looking alright.