i would definitely make some templates, a few ways of doing so is wax paper over the plans and use a permanent marker to trace another way is tracing paper, one way i have used which is much more cumbersome is using a piece of glass large enough to hold your plans and elevate it off the table and place a light under and you can use regular printer paper over the plans. just be careful if your using thin glass not to push down to hard. i use a glass top coffee table with a round shop lite under it. hope this can help. and side note i wouldn't glue the paper to the wood