Routing Templates 20 products

Guitar Routing Templates for Accurate, Repeatable Cuts

A solid routing template turns your layout lines into clean cavities, straight channels, and consistent pockets—without the freehand routing guesswork that shows up later in fit and setup. This selection covers the common routing jobs builders and repair techs face most: pickups, control cavities, tremolo routes, battery boxes, neck pockets, acoustic neck joints, and truss rod work, plus routing tools for inlay layout. Set your centerlines correctly, take shallow passes with a bearing-guided bit, and a good template keeps the cut where it belongs.

Neck, Joint, and Truss Rod Routing with Confident Alignment

Neck work rewards precision. Templates help you keep critical routes centered and square—like truss rod channels (and reinforcement rod slots) and consistent neck pocket geometry for bolt-on builds, as well as acoustic neck joint routing where clean reference surfaces matter. Many StewMac templates are clear for visibility and use laser-etched centerlines to help you hit placement accurately.

Body Routing Templates for Pickups, Controls, and Hardware Cavities

Most body routing comes down to repeatability: pickup cavities that fit cleanly, control cavities that land where the harness needs them, and hardware routes that don’t drift across builds. This page includes pickup templates for common platforms (humbucker, P-90, Tele, Strat, P-Bass, Jazz Bass), plus control cavity, tremolo, and battery box routing templates—and money-saving sets when you want a full system for a specific build style.

Inlay and Layout Helpers for Cleaner, More Predictable Results

Not every “routing template” is a big cavity guide. This page also includes fingerboard inlay tools—like an inlay template and inlay jig—and a center-locating transfer punch for faster, more accurate layout before you ever pick up the router.