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HEHE, Hi all, I'm back. Its been a while but I was led onto the dark trail of CNC. Last amp I built was the sIII I think.

Whats new anything hot that desperately needs to be built?

Hi coco

Having fun making guitars and necks.





heres the machine I built.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FadI53SivOg

and here's my first test cut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4amnO6L8g

Geez, more talented people in the forum. What a great place to hang out.

Trinity HiWatt.

Nice CNC! I wish that I had a bigger pile of spare change. I'd pop for one of those in a heartbeat. I'm guessing that you could buy a small reliable used car for less money.

LeeMo

It's awesome! (both CNC & TRIWATT). I thought it would be way cool to cut out cab parts with a CNC.

TRIWATT read a summary about it here: viewtopic.php?t=1516

How do you get all those curve & angle info into the computer?

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You can buy a brand new, tricked out car for less than an entry level (industrial quality) CNC machining center.

AJC

I built this machine from scratch. Cost me in parts $2500.00.

I am doing 3d models of the guitars and necks on the computer. The easy stuff can be with a 2d cad program. or even import a hand drawn sketch and work in the cad. The cabs should be a piece of cake. I built into the machine the capability of the machine to do dovetails quickly. Then you run it through a CAM program to convert to gcode so the machine can cut it out. Once I figure out how to finish the guitars and necks I am going to use it to make my chassis's, faceplates etc... and any other parts I can figure out. I am working on making a brake to bend the chassis's after I cut them on the machine. ITs been a real fun ride so far. I'm doing musicman's, tele's and jazz bass's so far. I just haven't figure out yet or attempted to finish them...... The machine is really easy to operate, and the computer stuff is a fun part also.

I'll have to check out the triwats. Is there schematics running around for these units?

Triwatt docs are in the "resources" section

viewtopic.php?t=1567

Bit more of an involved build than as sIII, but it's a NICE amp

I'd be interested in any details on your CNC center, looks like a fun thing to build and if it can make reproducable necks

I've made three necks for testing out of maple and they were all within one thousands of an inch.

A few different body's. My fav is obviously the Tele. Working on a model for the thinline now. Only if I could put a kickass finish on them. I am testing this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4amnO6L8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRD48n_nbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-8oIqTyCIM






You can rummage through here and get some pics of the build among other things.
http://www.rbevins.com/CNC/

Thanks for the info

Looks good for a long term project I'm thinking about

How much finish work do the pieces need after milling to get all the contours smooth??

What sort of finish are you thinking about? I'm on hold ($) on a tele project of my own, finish is the next step and I have the Stew-Mac finish book, good info!!

That bear paw fretboard in the thread is right off the machine/. YOu can see there is not alot of sanding to do. Very light sanding.

Finsih I think I am going to use alimin dye with chip shellac. Not sure yet.

I took a look at your picture files, the necks are very close to final shape Not much clean-up required

Very nice job on those Were the fret slots cut with the NC too?

A lot of guys use Tru-oil on their maple necks, easy to use and apply and supposed to do a very nice finish.

Thanks for the information.

Yeah, I am going to try tru-oil.

The fret slots were cut with the machine also. a .023 endmill.