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Whatever it is it looks great. I'll have to check out Home Depot again, I had written them off for good plywood years ago. Great job, man!

We've got a local supplier here that has it, I'm in Texas so I'm sure it's available in other areas. Its not cheap. The cheap stuff at the box stores is only oak on the outside and has terrible voids.

Where did you get the plywood? Most oak plywood I've ever seen has a birch core.

Absolutely! As an example, drilling side jacks for telecaster ... I wanted them to be more accurately placed. I toiled with making a modification to my machine to be able to hold the body at a right...

Here's where I am on CNC guitar making, I use it where it's either cheaper, faster or more precise. The right tool for the job is my motto! A lot of the time, I use the CNC to make jigs to do stuff...

I don't know if anybody else noticed this or not, but there is a plaque in the Hooters picture :)

Well, the ones with the holes are cheaper! If I can't line up the cutter without hitting a hole, I'd better give up on this whole woodworking thing :)

If you read further in his blog, he states that he regrets his choice for linear rails because he has to take shallow cuts. It's in the comments section.

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Ok, here's some pics with the screenshots from my cad files, I didn't take any pics putting it together. I think you'll get the gist of it. It works very well and didn't cost squat. I don't locate...

You're probably OK, it depends on how you use your machine. Almost everything I cut is double sided, so all my holes are for indexing, I try to clamp in the same holes when I can so there are lots. I...

I use the inserts for individual tooling plates that I attach to my spoil board. I found that MDF dimples really bad when I use them, and they are expensive as all get out when you need a boatload of...

Sure, I'll snap a couple tomorrow...

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You'll be better off that way. I have one layer of plywood, then 2 layers of MDF on mine. Since my frame is made of welded steel tube, I just bolted the bottom layer of plywood to it and screwed the...

Faztek has those brackets and you can order them online.

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Where's the dust shoe pics? You promised :)

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I would go with 48 volts and a stepper with low inductance, less than 2mH , that 425 is a real dog, it would take 80 volts to drive it, your G540 would top out at 50. I'm using 320oz low inductance...

That 425oz stepper requires a whole lot more than 30 volts for decent torque at high RPM's.

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Those pieces are to align the rails, you just bolt them up and go...

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There are lot's of people with wheels on their machines, I don't see a problem with it...

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The dust collector looks real close, the hoses need space to turn around. It also looks like loading material onto the CNC may be tough with that table saw so close. I'd ditch the cars and spread out...

There are hours and hours of machine build on YouTube, some are very long and thorough.

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So, let me get this straight... you received a lot of messages about the machine, but you are surprised by the lack of response? And you can't figured out how to put the machine together, so you are...

Just make the sketch that has the revolve visible, then mate both lines that represent the mating surface tangent to the rail, then turn off the sketch visibility and mate your bearing plate parallel...

Your extrusion comes from 80/20, not CNCRouterparts. In all my dealings with CNCRP, I can say that I've always received my parts quickly, sometimes shipping the same day. I'm a huge fan having owned...

Look at all those holes! Why bother trying to stiffen up thin and flimsy uprights? Just build them right to begin with. Adding 1mm isn't going to help much at all, it's still way under what is...

Just redraw it.

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Go check out the CNCRouterparts kits. I've got the NEMA 23 320oz kit, it'll damn near move a Mac truck, and it hauls ass. Very surprising for such small motors.

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.25, but if I'm cutting cheap plywood, I'll set my max pass depth to .375. This cuts the imported stuff in 2 passes... it's actually only .72 inches thick anyway. I would normally use a 1/4" cutter,...

Absolutely. I use 1/2" 2" cut length straight and spirals. I cut guitars out of some pretty hard woods. I cut at 120ipm on an older acme driven CNCRouterparts type machine.

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If you have your motors running in a reasonable RPM range 25kHz is fine. I'm running mine with 5 start screws and my machine will run way faster than I would ever care to cut. There's a lot that goes...