[woodman08]

Maching out a tele guitar neck.
An experiment as its much simpler to purchase the neck than making one.
But i had never machines out a 3D object so this would be a good start.
I used cut3D but it would not allow tabs 2 good heavy duty tabs at either end would have helped
as i selected .25 overcut so there would be no scrap wood left to hold the
neck in place.Secondly i should have allowed about 4 in at either end.
Then you need a fairly long end mill ,mone were 1/2 flat/round end 3 in long so about 2.25 is
ready for machining ,but i could have used about 2.75 as it was hitting the collet.
Not sure if you can get 3.5 in 3/8 or 1/2 end mills that long.
And its a very slow process,but did work and if i would have had better alignment when i flipped
the blank 180 degrees it would have machined more accurate.
Also the z=0 should be a standalone reference as when you do the first rough cut you loose your
reference spot
But its a start ,will improve next one

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_sz0TTaLiw"]YouTube - tele guitar neck experiment a 3D file form 2x4 spruce[/nomedia]

[woodman08]

tried a different method after some suggestions about doing top and bottom and it worked fine and because i used a board about 6 in wide
i was able to add tabs which turned out very good .But i used z=0 at the bottom left and when i flipped the board i was out by 1/8
so it looks like z=0 should be centre of the project and i also used 3/8 end mills probably a better finish.
Turned out ok


[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx5b41uwTd8"]YouTube - maching a guitar neck exercise this time top (fret side) and bottom[/nomedia] guitar neck 2 2nd
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6WNV9MXEIA"]YouTube - added tabs to the tele neck ,file ready for maching[/nomedia] cut3d video