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That is a beautiful guitar! I love your process. I have created two electric guitars on my cnc mill, at work. A Les Paul, and PRS. I have a couple of questions for you. What do you use for a...

Felixz, thanks for posting this guide! We were finally able to get my son's setup to work, using this guide! Thanks again!

rajshinai, Thank you, also! It's good to know we are on the right track.

Joh-nny, this is the first I have heard of inverting the enable signal. Is this a setting in Mach3? Which page? Thanks for the help!

My 12 yr old saved his money and bought a kit, off ebay, that included this latest tb6560 3 axis board (the one Joh-nny is working with), a 24v power supply, and 3 nema 23 6 wire motors. He's...

Here is a pic of a prs that I cut from that surface file...this is straight off the machine, no sanding. I don't have any of the elevation differences you are seeing in your simulation. Must be...

I'm glad you like the file. I will post the neck. My neck file is just the neck minus the fretboard. To get to a 24 fret neck you just add two frets to the fretboard and move the neck pickup down...

Hey I have surfaces for a LP and a PRS custom....they are my own interpretations...but I think they look good. Both are modeled in Mastercam.

Here are pics of finished guitars I built from these...

Not sure what to tell you....all I did was open your dwg in MC. MC imported it as a solid. Oh well...glad it works for you now.

It seems that you are having trouble cutting the radius on the angle? What version of Mastercam are you using? I loaded your part into version 9 and this is how I would cut your part.



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What kind of neck are you looking to have machined? Do you have the data already?

Stew Mac hot rod here as well.

Hey John,

I used a few different end mills on this neck. All of the endmills were solid carbide, 4 flute (I had no particular reason for the 4 flute, it was just what I had.). For most of the...

Hey, I sent you an email and a PM. Are you still looking for someone to do this project?

"How can the Chinese qoute the job for the cost of your materials?" you ask. It's easy, their people are lucky if they are making 1/10th of what you and I are making. How much more competitive...

Honestly, I bought my fretboard with the slots precut from Stewart- Mac Donald. If you search online there are several different fret spacing calculators available. You typically enter your scale...

Luthier,

Thanks for the tip :cheers: I'll give that a try next time around.

On another note, I just got done joining some quilted maple for the carved top on this guitar. Hope to cut that at...

Next time around I may try the layered method. It would be pretty easy to throw the boards in the mill and cut out the contours.

Thanks for the compliments

By using the scarf joint you avoid having end grain runout on the face of the head stock. I'm sure if Benedetto is doing it, it works and it works well. I just didn't have the material to pursue...

It's finished! -_- Here are some pics.

Back of neck

front of neck

volute

heel

Hey! I finally am back to work on this project! I was able to do some work on the neck this weekend. (I copied this post from a post I just made over on Project Guitar.com

First thing I ran...

Chris R,

DXF format does not support any surfaces or 3D info. Could you save your file in a different format. What cad system are you using?

Autocad won't read and Iges file? Seems like something at that level should. Anyway, look in your file menu for converters or translators. Or when you do a file open, you may have a dropdown menu...

What software are you using to create your drawings? Seems like most 3D capable software would have an IGS converter. I know rhino and solid works both do as well as mastercam.

Here is an Iges file of my LP surface. It is not stock. the carve is a little more extreme but you are welcome to check it out

Hey guys,

Awesome thread! I too am building a guitar with my cnc. I'm working on a modified version of a Les Paul. I just thought I would post some pictures of how I machined the body. I'm not...

Yeah the pots are normaly as you described, but I like the looks of the recessed knobs plus it allows me to drill my holes in the mill as they can now be perpendicular to the flat side of the carved...

I use Mastercam Mill level3. I have it for work, so I do some government stuff too, if ya know what I mean. The cam asspect is great, but there are much better design programs.

Hey everyone, I'm new here (first post). I was referred to this site by Lvanduyn. He stumbled on to my thread on ProjectGuitar.com. I am also slowly working on a CNC Les Paul. Here is a picture...