Axe Shaper

Design custom bodies for solid-body electric guitars and basses on iPad. Axe Shaper is a focused design tool for luthiers, woodworkers, students, and anyone developing an original electric guitar or bass body. Start with one of 16 built-in body templates—eight guitar and eight bass—then reshape every curve and adjust the construction details to make the design your own. Draw naturally with touch or Apple Pencil while working with accurate, real-world dimensions. Features include: Sixteen built-in templates: eight guitar and eight bass Precise body-contour editing with smooth Bezier controls Live symmetry for creating balanced shapes Photo import and camera scanning for tracing an existing instrument or paper drawing Two-point calibration using real-world measurements Editable pickups, bridges, neck pockets, routs, pickguards, and body layers Customizable finishes and a three-dimensional instrument preview Full-size, tiled PDF export for printing workshop templates Portable Axe Shaper documents stored in Files or iCloud Drive Axe Shaper is purpose-built for solid-body electric guitar and bass design. It does not require an account, and your projects and reference images are not uploaded to a server. Begin with a familiar foundation—or shape something entirely your own.