One mean Fiddle!!!!

[Guy Mathews]

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Does Guy Mathews carve a mean fiddle on a CNC machine?

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Start with some good stock.

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Cut away the rough stuff.

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Set the outside thickness for the sides with a good sharp bit.

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Flip it over and set the inside wall thickness, and hog out the inside.

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Get her cleaned up real good on the inside.

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Flip her over again and do the front.

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Mortise out for a bridge.

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Cut off anything that doesn't look like a fiddle.


That's how you do it son!:cool:



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[Bob Savage]

Yeah! That's beautful, Guy.

You probably don't know it, but I play a little fiddle myself. Not that kind of fiddle. It's more like the one Hendrix played, nonetheless, I love to see these type of projects.

[Bruce Page]

Everyone should have a machine like that!

Very cool

[james mcgrew]

now that is good!!

jim

[AL Ursich]

Excellent WORK !!!!!

AL

[Sandy Smith]

Guy,
Thanks for the pictures. Very cool design.

What wood is that?

[Michael Kowalczyk]

Hey Guy,
Thanks for the play by play action there but you forgot one thing....

Where is Charlie Daniels???

[Steve knight]

yes cool but what is up only making one at a time?

[Guy Mathews]

Bob,

Thanks. One thing though, I thought Hendrix played The Stars Bangled Banner not the fiddle!:D

Bruce,

Thanks man. Always nice to hear from a moderator. The machine is 250K so not everyone will have one!:D Also, the machine doesn't mean anything. I can make these 10 at a time on this machine or individually on a CAMaster, ShopBot, Thermwood, CNTMotionMaster, Techno, X-Factory, Multi-CAM or whatever. I have stated many times, the machines are just stupid pieces of metal and electronics. As long as it can follow code accurately, I can make it dance to my tune.


Jim,

What can I say Jim, it was cool project to proof and you know me, if I can parodize something, I will!


Al,

Thank you. When you coming for another visit? I have some more exciting stuff going on to share with you!


Sandy,

Thanks, not my design though. A new customer provided the design. I am just doing the CAD and CAM operations. The wood is maple. Productions runs will be in Curly Maple. I am using 12/4 that will be split proprtionately and matched up so the backs and the bodies come from the same piece of wood with only about 3/16ths of an inch of kerf missing from the wood. This way, the grains will make it appear that the violin/fiddle was always there within the tree, I just removed the rough stuff!:rolleyes:


Mike,

Tennesee of course! As the song says... "and all the good folks down in Tennesee, are digging Barefoot Jerry and the CDB!


Steve,

Thank you man. How you been? To answer your question about why only one. Let me ask you a question. Did you ever break a bit running a new program? Imagine that times 10!!!:eek:

This was the proof operation. It is also the second proof. The first proof exploded or shattered in the final passes of the machining. I changed the toolpath strategies and the second run worked well. However, I am changing one more cut strategy prior to production.

I will video at the customer's request the production run of this project. If Charlie Daniels would be so kind, I would love to use some of his music for background sound but alas, that will probably never happen in my lifetime!

More to come on this project in the coming weeks.

Guy

[Nicholas Bukky]

Guy,
Very cool project. Will you guys do the finishing of them as well? Is there more routing for the string pegs,bridge etc or will your customer install the hardware.
Again cool project. I would have liked to see video of the one blowing up:eek:

Thanks for sharing!
Nick

[Gene Crain]

Nice closeups of the "fiddle"...but how 'bout a few shots of the chipmaker...ahhh the machine :eek:

Gene Crain
plantasymaderas DOT com
cnczacatitos DOT com

[Michael Kowalczyk]

Hey Guy,
If Geico can get him you got a 50/50 chance. I would check into it. Worse thing that could happen is he says no. Best thing could be it goes viral on YouTube and the phone and email start smoking;)

[Brandon MacDougall]

Wow! I have spindle envy.. I video of that baby loaded and cutting would be sweet..

[Guy Mathews]

Wow! I have spindle envy.. I video of that baby loaded and cutting would be sweet..


Brandon,

This may help with the spindle envy until I cut all 10 sometime next week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtd-xFukZQ4


Nice work with that Carvewright!!!!


Guy

[Brandon MacDougall]

Thanks Guy,

Your violin looks sweet so far, Did you use visual mill?

LG

[AL Ursich]

How lucky I am having Guy in my backyard...... Time for another visit....

The multi head video will be hot... Look forward to it...

AL

[Guy Mathews]

Thanks Guy,

Your violin looks sweet so far, Did you use visual mill?

LG

Rhino for my CAD work and Visual Mill 6.0 Pro for my CAM work. I have and use a mess of other software. The right tools for the right job sort of thing!

Also, not my violin. This is for a new customer. I bid the job last year and was outbid by a company in Canada, the job came up again this year, I bid again and got the job.

Guy

[Khalid Khattak]

Very Nice Guy:).. I liked the Fiddle..
Regards

[Brandon MacDougall]

Did you get that CNC just for the job? approximately how long to mill one body? love to see more pictures..

[Brandon MacDougall]

Hi Guy,
I would love to qet a idea of how this project is going. ;)

I hoping my questions did not demo this thread, I am not realy into solid body construction that your showing but would like to get a better understanding of farming out this type of work to people like yourself...

[Guy Mathews]

Hi Guy,
I would love to qet a idea of how this project is going. ;)

I hoping my questions did not demo this thread, I am not realy into solid body construction that your showing but would like to get a better understanding of farming out this type of work to people like yourself...

No, the questions did not demo the thread! LOL! The customer recieved the sample and was quite pleased. However, between my quest for perfection and his desire to have the neck more slender to enable him to finish the piece quicker I am changing milling strategies to accomadate this. When I program, I use any milling strategy that is available to me to get the products off the machine so that the end result means less finish time. Sometimes this means running more then one sample to tune the code.

Machine time is always important, but for this machine I always divide machine time numbers by 10 and try to find an optimum time that will balance machine and hand finishing so customers do not have to spend more time then needed to finish a product.

Guy

[Brandon MacDougall]

Bump- I love to see a video of the beast running.

[AL Ursich]

Lucky Me.... I am just a a few miles away and saw it in action once... If I can get caught up here, I would love to Visit again. Still working 7 days a week...

AL:eek: