Wanna see my wood?

[stankybudz]

My grandpa had some pieces of mahogany laying around so I had him cut and glue me a body blank. This is one solid chunk of awesomeness! No wonder lps weigh so much! I have a baldwin lp im going to trace around arty07:

 

[DangerousR6]

:headbang:

 

[stubhead]

If you're going to the trouble of that, why not an original body? You can get ideas from places like this:

http://www.destroyallguitars.com/newarrivals-guitars

And there are a couple of sites that index schematics and drawings:

http://shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38813

http://www.gitarrebassbau.de/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6&start=0

Sizing shapes up to scale really isn't hard, I'd bet your grandfather knows that stuff. If you can get a shape onto graph paper of any size - you own it, from there. Just make bigger squares and transfer the lines.