T-Style Bass Guitar Plans & 3D Model

Plans for a T-Style 4-string bass, drawn from our own 3D model and not traced from a photo. Print the 1:1 templates and cut by hand, send the DXF files to a CNC router or a laser, or open the 3D model in your CAD software and change it to suit your build.

What's in the plans

• Body routed for one single-coil bass pickup, neck pocket and control cavity for a control plate
• Bolt-on neck with our own TGF T-Style headstock, 4 tuner holes and the truss rod channel
• 3 fretboard radii: 7.25", 9.5" and 12"
• Pickguard
• Dimensioned drawings with every pocket depth, hole and position
• 1:1 templates that tile on A4 or US Letter, plus a single A0 sheet for a print shop
• Every file in millimetres and in inches

2D plans or full pack

• 2D plans: PDF plans and templates, DXF files for CNC (R12 and R2013, one layer per operation and depth) and true-scale SVG files for laser cutters and Inkscape.
• Full pack: the 2D plans, plus the 3D model as a STEP file (Fusion, FreeCAD, SolidWorks, Onshape and others) and one STL file per part for 3D printing.

Start from raw wood

The body outline is 406.0 x 324.1 mm and the body is 44 mm thick, so it fits our ash and mahogany body blocks (430 x 345 x 45 mm). The fretboard fits our bass fretboard blanks (630 x 70 x 6.5 mm), and the neck and fretboard wood is in our guitar blanks. Our 570 mm two-way truss rod fits the channel.

Download and licence

The files arrive by email as soon as your payment goes through: one zip file, with a START-HERE file that tells you which file to open. Build as many basses as you like from them, to keep or to sell. The files themselves are for you only, so please don't share or resell them.

Specifications