Another traveller coming up

I had a nice piece of straight grained alder that’ll be a travel uke. You might have seen this before but here we go again: I start by laying out the position and outlines for the hole. 

Then I hog out the bulk of the wood with a drill bit that leaves a flat bottomed hole. The depth stop is set so there isn’t too much left to remove. 



Cleaning up the edges with a sharp chisel. 



And when the two-part template fits snugly in the cavity, I can mark out the contours of the instrument...



... and take it to the bandsaw. I’ll update when I whip out the router plane.