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Originally Posted by warfrat73
Mine will be a simple affair of a board with slots and adjustable dowels.
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That is what it is.
I'd recommend a 2 x 4 screwed to the bottom of it if you want to hold it in a vice. You can also embed a threaded insert into a hole at the centre of the sound hole. You can then use a bolt or threaded rod to hold down a 1 x 2 as a clamp to hold the top in place, or to hold a disk that fits in the sound hole to position the top.
Make a few short dowels to hold the assembled body during routing, gluing bindings, etc. Make the rest of the dowels a little shorter than the depth of the sides so that they don't interfere with the guitar back - if the body is face-down - or the top - if the body is face-up.
If you cut one end of the dowel square and drill in a drill press so that the hole for the threaded rod is perpendicular to the square end, the dowels will sit square to the board when tightened, giving you guitar sides that are square to the board.
The slots in the board can be used with rubber bands for clamping bindings to the body.