“We literally started from a big block of wood. The only thing that we purchased that was pre-made for the guitar was the neck. I would give this advice to anyone that was thinking about this project. Decide what you can and you can’t do up front. If the guitar neck isn’t right, the rest of the instrument is just never going to be good. So, we bought the neck, but everything else was just a block of wood, the electrical components and the blueprints… We actually learned how to do some CAD work and the students built a CAD design of the guitar in the computer and then moved that over to the CNC router and drew the path for the router to move along the wood. I think it took about 90 minutes for the router to work and cut the entire body out.