Continuing on to some tedious detail work...
The adapted hand-cutter I used 2 years ago is still with me. It was pretty cool for soft mahogany and spruce and walnut in those days...
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But, it is not really going to hold up for hard oak on the new guitar. So, after thinking about it all weekend, I have butchered the edge-guide attachment on my power trim router, and added a cylindrical piece of delrin / acetal to serve as the "follower" for the guitar sides:
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First testing task, just a flush cutting operation, to get the top and back to match the curved sides, is working pretty well:
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The guitar body is entire but very rough. In addition to needing routing for the applied binding borders, some parts need cosmetic covering. Similar to the first guitar shown earlier, I'm covering up the first glue joint in this whole project, some very ugly but nice and tacky and strong JB-Kwik epoxy:
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Happy woodworking!
Chris