January 29, 2013
New bass I’m designing. might not go with Jazz pickups, at least at the bridge. This is for an upcoming tutorial on CAD and CAM for luthiery.

New bass I’m designing. might not go with Jazz pickups, at least at the bridge. This is for an upcoming tutorial on CAD and CAM for luthiery.

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Filed under: bass guitar CNC cad cam 
December 31, 2012
Guitar I put together out of all the prototype parts I had laying around; the Sapele body is the very first one I successfully cut out on my CNC router. It is also the first time I used celluloid binding, and sprayed nitrocellulose. The body is much thinner than the later ones—No scale handy, but this guitar feels like less than 5 pounds. It feels like a hollowbody. Neck is birdseye maple with a Pao Ferro fretboard. Alnico V pickups, 8.5k and 7.5k, bridge and neck respectively. 3-way switch, 250k volume and tone pot, .022uF orange drop cap. Just waiting on tuners and a bridge to arrive. This one’s spoken for.

Guitar I put together out of all the prototype parts I had laying around; the Sapele body is the very first one I successfully cut out on my CNC router. It is also the first time I used celluloid binding, and sprayed nitrocellulose. The body is much thinner than the later ones—No scale handy, but this guitar feels like less than 5 pounds. It feels like a hollowbody. Neck is birdseye maple with a Pao Ferro fretboard. Alnico V pickups, 8.5k and 7.5k, bridge and neck respectively. 3-way switch, 250k volume and tone pot, .022uF orange drop cap. Just waiting on tuners and a bridge to arrive. This one’s spoken for.

December 9, 2012
Googly eyes. My CNC machine was not complete until today.

Googly eyes. My CNC machine was not complete until today.

October 4, 2012
Clean!

Clean!

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Filed under: cnc pcb big muff stompbox 
October 2, 2012
.8mm Kyocera drill bits on 1/8” shanks. Hopefully 10 will last me a minute. Hooray eBay.

.8mm Kyocera drill bits on 1/8” shanks. Hopefully 10 will last me a minute. Hooray eBay.

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Filed under: CNC PCB electronics 
September 28, 2012
First attempt at milling a pcb- very happy with the results! I to need learn the intricacies of the pcb-gcode ulp in Eagle, and decrease the tool depth a tiny bit. Hopefully milling the real thing tomorrow.

First attempt at milling a pcb- very happy with the results! I to need learn the intricacies of the pcb-gcode ulp in Eagle, and decrease the tool depth a tiny bit. Hopefully milling the real thing tomorrow.

September 22, 2012
Got pcb-gcode running in Eagle, made toolpaths and loaded into my CNC computer. Here it is, opened in EMC. Can’t wait to run this when my engraver bits arrive.

Got pcb-gcode running in Eagle, made toolpaths and loaded into my CNC computer. Here it is, opened in EMC. Can’t wait to run this when my engraver bits arrive.

September 22, 2012
All done.  I have been trying to decide between silicon and NOS germanium diodes for the clipping stages, I’ve read that people are pleased with each, and that they are quite different; but with no sound samples, I decided to make it a feature of the pedal that you could switch between Si and Ge on both the first and second stages. Should make for some fun sonic options. And who doesn’t love lots of switches on a stomp box? :)

All done. I have been trying to decide between silicon and NOS germanium diodes for the clipping stages, I’ve read that people are pleased with each, and that they are quite different; but with no sound samples, I decided to make it a feature of the pedal that you could switch between Si and Ge on both the first and second stages. Should make for some fun sonic options. And who doesn’t love lots of switches on a stomp box? :)

September 9, 2012
Finally cut out all the parts- another neck going together this week. For le twins.

Finally cut out all the parts- another neck going together this week. For le twins.

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Filed under: cnc guitar 
September 9, 2012
New neck, fretted! Now to get ready for spray.

New neck, fretted! Now to get ready for spray.

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Filed under: cnc guitar mahogany custom 
September 9, 2012
New neck, reverse.

New neck, reverse.

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Filed under: cnc guitar mahogany custom 
September 8, 2012
New roughing routine. Reminds me of an 80’s video game, or Tron.

New roughing routine. Reminds me of an 80’s video game, or Tron.

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Filed under: cnc guitar 
August 13, 2012
Test neck, hot off the machine. Some minor toolpath tweaks to make, but this is a LOT nicer than the last ones. The real ones will be birdseye maple.

Test neck, hot off the machine. Some minor toolpath tweaks to make, but this is a LOT nicer than the last ones. The real ones will be birdseye maple.

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Filed under: CNC guitar 
July 13, 2012

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Filed under: cnc guitar pickup pickups 
July 13, 2012
Getting ready to cut some pickup bobbins out of this cool butterscotch-colored phenolic from McMaster-Carr. I’m not putting covers on these, so I thought I’d make them fancy.

Getting ready to cut some pickup bobbins out of this cool butterscotch-colored phenolic from McMaster-Carr. I’m not putting covers on these, so I thought I’d make them fancy.