[konalure]

there are dowel pin holes to reference the piece. the holes will first be cut in a spoilboard ( that does not move at all during the whole process and is the base for the work to sit on..), then in the wood, then the wood is flipped onto these holes and attatched with dowels..., then a second set of holes in drilled for the flip..I did not include them in the previews I posted but they will align the guitar when it its fliped to carve the 2 sides.. getting the wood all planed evenly will be critical for this to work properly.. flipping the vectors and generating the toolpaths in the software can be a bit tricky ( to keep everything aligned) , you have to be sure the dowel pin holes are in the right place.. I learned this the hard way on another project.

:rainfro:

[konalure]

I cut that guitar body the other day.. came out a lot nicer than I thought it would.. Next one I cut I'll document it better and make a tutorial on it.. need to get some screenshot software to capture the vcarve/cut3d stuff to explain how I do it.. anyone know some good free software to capture screens?

[dustin1706]

I cut that guitar body the other day.. came out a lot nicer than I thought it would.. Next one I cut I'll document it better and make a tutorial on it.. need to get some screenshot software to capture the vcarve/cut3d stuff to explain how I do it.. anyone know some good free software to capture screens?

Looks good man! Would love to see a tutorial of you do this again! Especially if you did it all with vcarve/cut3d.

No radiused edge though? or are you going to use a plain router for that?

Planning on making a neck or did you size it to use a stewmac or similar neck?

[tjskcnc]

Looks good man! Would love to see a tutorial of you do this again! Especially if you did it all with vcarve/cut3d.

No radiused edge though? or are you going to use a plain router for that?

Planning on making a neck or did you size it to use a stewmac or similar neck?

I find it quicker to just use a round-over bit on my table router for the edges, and then a set of flat and round files to cut the neck contours for easier fretboard access.

I've only made trial cuts for guitar bodies (I've done 6 so far with scrap material) and I am working on my first neck. When I have a process down for completing a usable body, I'll post a quick tutorial on my process.

In the mean time, I'm watching these posts for ideas on improving my skills!

[rowbare]

anyone know some good free software to capture screens?

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html works pretty well. It isn't fancy but has enough features to do the job.

bob

[konalure]

Originally Posted by dustin1706
Looks good man! Would love to see a tutorial of you do this again! Especially if you did it all with vcarve/cut3d.

No radiused edge though? or are you going to use a plain router for that?

Planning on making a neck or did you size it to use a stewmac or similar neck?

I should note that I also used Rhino to make the contours for that example I posted.. Cut3d will only generate the toolpaths for the contours, not create them..

I find it much faster to just use the router table with a roundover bit for the radiused edge... I plan on making a neck for that body, I've got the modeling pretty much done, just need to get down to the wood store and get some decent maple. working on a tutorial now of the whole Rhino-Cut3d-Vcarve process.. , I'll post it here when I finish it hopfully this week.. (nuts)