Guitar Neck Tilt back headstock
by macguitars » Tue May 03, 2016 11:44 pm
Another newbie kicking the tires of CNC milling. I recently purchased an X-carve to test the CNC water, looking to see what might be possible in my small guitar shop. well that just wet my whistle and now I am looking at a Laguna IQ. To start with I wanted to be able to offer more consistent neck profiles. I have been hand carving since 1977 and although I am pretty good at it you can never put the wood back so CNC, now that they have become more affordable, seemed like a good way to go assuming my CAD work was usable. Now that I have proven the drawings with many hours of cutting air and or wasting tons of wood to get to the actual geometry surface I have been on the hunt for CAM program that would be able to mill a tilt back headstock. by that I mean be able to setup the CAM to do both the heel, radius, and the angle without having to try and reset X,Y,Z 0 when a new job has to be loaded. Perhaps separate jobs the run consecutively. As you can see I don't know exactly what I am talking about but something like that. The CAM software always sees the stock block as the full X,Y,Z, I have attached a JPG of the model and the stock ( sort of ) to hopefully show what I am trying to accomplish. Vcarve Pro seems interesting and would afford a good deal of additional flexibility, I am using the trial version at the moment Hoping that this will be the right package to do the necks as well as lots of other things
All advice appreciated
Thanks in advance
macguitarsVectric Apprentice Posts: 2Joined: Mon May 02, 2016 3:10 pmModel of CNC Machine: X-Carve Soon Laguna IQ