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 ## Part Selections ##
 
-Another intense period of study led to the decision to use 
+A period of intense study led to selecting 
 [DiMarzio](http://dimarzio.com) Area pickups.  These are stacked-coil hum
 reducing pickups in the standard strat single-coil pickup form factor.  The 
 chosen "standard" set consists of:
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+## Body ##
+
+I started out with a 1962 Stratocaster design file created in Alibre by
+user protomachinst6 on CNCzone.
+
+http://www.cnczone.com/forums/musical-instrument-design-and-construction/17659-cnc-32.html
+
+I originally hoped that I would be able to use FreeCAD to modify this design,
+but the STEP import process seemed to lose the ability to keep the various
+sub-assemblies oriented correctly relative to each other.  Since Alibre has
+been replaced by Geomagic Design, I pulled down a 15-day trial version of
+that package to one of the Windows machines in the house, and (not 
+surprisingly)it was able to read the file just fine.
+
+Another interesting STEP file of the body from a 1962 strat drawn by Marc 
+Erasmus is available on [GrabCAD](https://grabcad.com/library/62-strat-asm)
+and it appears at least one person has actually built a guitar using these
+files.
+
+To build the guitar body I want, the existing body design file needs to be
+modified to eliminate the tremolo cut-out and rear cavity, to add screw holes
+for the hard-tail bridge, and to shift the electronics cavity from being
+front-open to being rear-accessible with the front just having 3 holes for
+the volume and tone control shafts and the slot and mounting screw holes
+needed for the pickup selector switch.
+
 ## Wiring ##
 
 A standard strat has a volume control, 2 tone controls, and a 5-way pickup