Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveK Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 My partner uses one. We are just finishing a Paul Reed Smith "tribute guitar body". Of course, it is only for our presonal use, as Mr. Reed Smith's lawers get VERY testy about copys of their guitars . I will post pictures, but this thing looks BAD ASS!!!! Now I can finally have a Black Limba PRS body!!!! DaveK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 We're going to sell the one we use at the shop. it's only about 3 months old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyderek Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 PG auction!!!!!! what kinda gear are you including, is there more then one tracing pin? do you need a specific router? table??, of course pics would help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 is it like a key dupilicator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveK Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 Scott: How much are you looking for? Let me know Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 it cost 3000 new! I'd say email him with offers Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars Posted November 4, 2003 Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 Hence whhy I want build one...things are expensive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted November 7, 2003 Report Share Posted November 7, 2003 Here ya go! Complete plans for the CopyCarver. It's for carving fish, but it looks interesting, and evidently it's scalable. "Easily built in 4 hours with common items found in any home / hardware store for around $150 US", so the price is right! Update us if you decide to build one - if it works, I may make one myself, but I'm not brave enough to attempt it at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YDoesGodMockMeSo Posted November 7, 2003 Report Share Posted November 7, 2003 ^i saw that a while ago. But it looks like its made for small jobs. Yeah its scaleable. But how would you fit a router powerful/deep enough to route out things like neck pockets and trem cavitys and control cavities...and what not. And I dunno about flipping it over to do the other side...it seems it'd have to be a pretty accurate flip. I guess centerlines or something? I just dunno about that router stuff. Well obviously it can be done: Musical Instruments - Here is the biggest surprise to me of all. The largest group of Copycarver users is by far guitar, banjo, violin, mandolin and piano builders. I had no idea there were so many people building these instruments by hand as a hobby. The results they have achieved with the Copycarver are overwhelming. Each using the machine not to produce quantity but to produce quality. Once a design is perfected it can easily be reproduced to exacting standards each time, reducing any errors left to chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyderek Posted November 7, 2003 Report Share Posted November 7, 2003 ya i never understood how you could flip something over on a cnc or duplicator and have it perfectly in the right place... i mean, center line... and a scale line or something might do it,.... but what about parallel axis error... or just the fact that people vision isn't perfect?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YDoesGodMockMeSo Posted November 7, 2003 Report Share Posted November 7, 2003 i was thinking maybe a box or something? making a 2 boxes sized perfectly for the guitar body. Know what I mean? Kinda like a barrier on all 4sides, and the body could only just fit and only in one direction. And then flip them over...and they'd only fit perfectly flipped over. I dunno. Maybe it has suggestions in the Forum section? But I'm ASSuming you have to buy the plans to get access to it. here's a guy that uses the carver for bangos. http://www.robertedney.com/workshop.htm here are some other ones http://www.crankorgan.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars Posted November 7, 2003 Report Share Posted November 7, 2003 I will be building one, so I will post it in tut form here, when it's done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YDoesGodMockMeSo Posted November 7, 2003 Report Share Posted November 7, 2003 awesome. Which one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted November 7, 2003 Report Share Posted November 7, 2003 Here's a picture of the one we use Warning Large Pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YDoesGodMockMeSo Posted November 7, 2003 Report Share Posted November 7, 2003 kewl. can you explain how it works though? like ...the questions I brought up a few posts up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckguitarist Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 those are alot of EVH bodies!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 those are alot of EVH bodies!!! We stopped doing those all together As for the router, They work like this, There is a stylus which folows your master pattern and a router on the same plane that actually does the cutting. The router goes where ever the stylus goes which allows you to make exact duplicates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 Mine will be made out of an old bed frame i have lying arond from our old roommate. That's all I know now until I lay out the plan.....when I am awake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkdefino Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 $3000.00 for a duplicarver? How about this for $3000.00? Cheap CNC Router Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86barettaguy Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 scott: couldn't open that pic... anyone have some simple plans? just something to get me started (haven't figured out how to make the router movable in 3 directions while keeping it stable. yet.)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Luthier Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 I made one once, sucked. It was to "wiggly", especially with the weight of the router, very unstable. I've seen alot of people on the MIMF, go into the forum, make there own, there may also be plans in the library over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryeisnotcool2 Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 wow funkdefino, that machine looks cool! i might look into it! of coarse it takes some of the fun out of building but it would be cool to use! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 $3000.00 for a duplicarver? How about this for $3000.00? Cheap CNC Router so you what?program in dimensions?i'm not sure i get exactly how these things work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryeisnotcool2 Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 yeah wes, its probably more for if you are gonna mass produce. sort a small scale version of prs, you have to either have a 3d cad of your guitar wich you then can enter the x,y,z axis's then it will do the work for you. im thinkin about getting one, i have two different guitar models i wanna start producing and i also have a bass that is freakin cool and a baratone guitar in the works, i have a buddy who does really great cad designs so next week were gonna do my guitar, then i think i will be able to just instert the disk into this program and walla! a guitar! but i think i might still have to enter all the different demensions by hand. but since i wanna start a co. this machine would let me make perrfect carves and every neck joint and every carve would be perfect! this way there is a lot less chance of mess ups, and perfect fitting necks! wich in turn gives a perfect guitar! maybe im starting to sound a little like mr. smith but i want to be able to build a "perfect" instrument! and for the price of this tool i think it might be worht getting, you figure it takes about 2-4 hours to carve and almost finish sand a carve top? well if this thing can do a perffect carve in lets say 1.5 hours wich is slow for a machine, i could be glueing another instrument or doing binding also you can make necks and if your like me build your own bridges! my buddy just finished our bridge design! it will be a single stop tailpeice that is ampedextris so one brdige for either lefty or righty! so then instead of paying a machinist to make them i can do it myself! im really considering getting one, i just got to talk the wife into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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