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David, fantastic work, very clean and well designed. You win the prize for the best 1st guitar anyone has made!

Thanks Will, I've coped your response to my friend across the pond!

Jim, glad you've enjoyed the videos! Yea those FE-17 reproductions took the life out of me! Lots of work, much harder trying to copy a historical piece than just make your own ... ha!

Yea, don't know if it will leave earth orbit. If it's not perfect I tell people we aren't gonna orbit the earth in it, or it's good enough for jazz.

I'm building a space shuttle with mine!

I bought a Shapeoko as some of you may know. I've progressed pretty well on it producing everything I wanted to do so far, with the help of Mick Simon here in Santa Fe, and Eric one of Mick's VCarve...

I never owned a windows machine until last week .... ha! I do video editing with FCPX and audio recording with Reaper. The guy who developed Logic Pro was a client of mine in San Francisco studying...

Tim, I got a Shapeoko XL a couple of weeks ago. The XXL was over kill for what I need it for, and frankly I don't have the shop space for a CNC to dominate it. I really couldn't be happier. I looked...

Excellent idea David! These necks I used were kinda throw away pieces anyway. I'll keep the last one though. I cut out a bridge, but I used the machine more like a mill, where I controlled the cuts...

Hello friends, it's been a little over a week since I got the Shapeoko XL. I can see this machine is gonna be a life-changer, my only regret is I didn't do this 10 years ago. I don"t know if...

‘Wow Mark, I was thinking of looking up SFCC for courses in CAD and CNC. Yes, I’m interested.

Here is what I came up with. A quick and dirty video, not as in-depth as David's. But, the big shop vac works great


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSmi43xcMQs

Kinda what I came up with. I when to WoodWorkers Supply today and got some step downs. Of course I got the wrong size, I'll have to go back later this week.

I solved the pump issue, I simply...

Hi Richard, No didn't use a gasket. I used Melamine two pieces 3/4 inch thick about 18x24 each and sandwiched them between a 1/4 thick MDF gasket I made a gasket rim and sealed it with a...

Jim, congratulations on your new machine!

Thanks guys, I have a Mercury vacuum pump I bought probably 20 years ago. Tried to look them up but seems like they are long gone. I’d have to remove the casing to see the motor ratings. I have a...

This evening I whipped together a vacuum table clamp to hold down work on the CNC machine. I have a vacuum press and figured that I’d just hook that up to the new vacuum clamp. But alas, it doesn’t...

Just want to say thanks to Carbide 3D! I ordered my machine last Friday with some extras. They say a 5 day wait to get the machine out. To my surprise and delight, I got a shipping notice it was...

Thanks Keith, I'm gonna give it a try first in Carbide Create, and Inkscape, if I have problems I may indeed hire someone to handle the Shape of the guitar problem. Good to know there are people who...

Hum .... Maybe I'll try it both ways, cant hurt to learn the hard way..... ha! Thanks Bill.

Perfect Thanks! I did watch the tutorial about creating the grid in mm's, and using the biser tool to create shapes in Inkscape. I can use Carbide Create for all the other pieces such as the head of...

I downloaded Inkscape today, i was thinking of creating a grid in millimeters and creating the shape on the grid. If I created a template of 490 mm X 360 with the shape of the guitar if I exported it...

Thanks William, perhaps not the right place to ask this question, but since I have your attention. Can I design an acoustical guitar shape in Carbide Create? I have templates as well as blueprints...

Thanks Bill, great info. Probably will start with the Desktop version of V-Carve then.

Hi William, I had a look at Fusion 360 watched a few videos By Lars Christensen, and frankly it seems way over my head at this point. Perhaps something to learn slowly over time, but not to get up...