Johnny Foreigner

Also to add: have also sprayed centurion’s 2k water based with this system and felt like performance was very similar.

Edit to add: the issue does seem to be atomization - like the gun is not atomizing the finish into a fine enough mist. That to me suggests not enough air pressure. But eager to hear from those with a better clue.

Hey all been using a fuji 2-stage turbine system for about a year and I’m just not totally happy with how it sprays. for reference I’m spraying Target’s EM6000 water based 1k. I’m in SoCal so almost always warmer than 70 and pretty low humidity I’ve tried different sized air caps/needles, different amounts of thinning, but it always seems to lay down a pretty uneven, sputtery kinda coat. Getawayable with for clear coats but pretty splotchy looking for anything color. so I’m wondering if a turbine system is just a wrong choice and should spend the $$ to switch to a decent sized compressor and HVLP gun. Happy to do so if my results improve. any advice?

Hey everyone, Some of you may remember me from around 14 years ago when I was posting builds on this site, or from the last time I was here, to shamelessly promote a documentary I'd made. I still check back in regularly to look at the builds going on and I'm endlessly impressed by everyone's creativity and craftsmanship. I'm back this time because I'm taking a new twist on life's road and I'm launching a guitar company. I'm not going to be building myself - this is more a large-scale, mass market thing. We are, however, keeping the name I used on this site all those years ago - Johnny Foreigner Guitars. Me and my co-founders are busily ramping up on planning and chasing investment and what we really really need right now is to have some good conversations with our potential customers - electric guitar players. We'll be doing that through some automated surveys and other mechanisms, but to get that rolling we need people to sign up to our email list. So here's what we're doing: if you go to our site - johnnyforeignerguitars.com - and sign up for our email list, we'll put you in the system to receive a survey, or we'll reach out individually with questions. Everyone who responds to one of these requests will go into a draw and we'll give away a free guitar when we start shipping - likely June of this year. We're building something we think is really interesting and game-changing for the way electric guitars are sold and we'd love for as many of you as possible to help us shape that offering to make sure we're building something people really *want*. So please head on over and sign up - and tell every guitar player you know. We'd love to hear from you. Cheers Tom, CEO - Johnny Foreigner Guitars

Time is as much my issue as space/tools, but it's definitely something to consider. The hexlab one looks great, but is more than an hour's drive away. LA is a ridiculously big place and the traffic is next level insane. I'll look into other options for sure though.

This is very much an initial exploration kind of question, so bear with me. It's been 6 or 7 years since my last build. Mainly that's because of lack of space to do any building, but also time constraints. In the last year or so I taught myself how to use fusion 360 and have put together a couple of designs that I'm pretty happy with and I would love to see translated into real guitars at some point if my circumstances change. Then it occurred to me that I would just about have time, space and tools to be able to handle glue-ups, finish sanding, pore-filling, fretting, electronics, hardware installation and oil finishes. So my question is this: do any of you who are handy with you CNCs ever take on commissioned work from others. I.E. could I pay someone to machine the basic components of my guitar design from my CAD file? And if so, what would that look like cost-wise and what would I need to deliver on my end, in terms of a file, to make that possible. Not something I'm looking to do right away, but was curious about what it might look like as a process.

+1 for Monty's! I've know Matt's missus for knocking on 22 years, and Matt for at least 12 or 13. Lovely bloke, who is really passionate about what he does and really believes in quality craftsmanship. Lovely packaging.

This is basically the official motto of Project Guitar

As in 6k well spent?

Also late to this conversation, but... No-one has mentioned the Laguna IQ mills, which seem like excellent value for money: http://lagunatools.com/cnc/iq-series/iq-24-36-cnc/ What am I missing?

Well, okay. It's been a couple of months and I have been having ENORMOUS fun learning Fusion360 and finishing up my first design in the program. This is actually more of a reverse engineering of the first guitar I built back in 2010, with some slightly modifications and improvements made. I'm really happy with how this came out, and now I need to start figuring out the CAM side of the software and see how feasible it is for me to generate a complete set of G-code that could, in theory, mean I could build 90% of this guitar on a CNC. Any feedback on the design gratefully received, and any thoughts/experience on using fusion360 for CAM likewise.

Update a month and a bit in: loving fusion360 and really starting to get the hang of it, which is incredible. One quick question for those of you more experienced than I am; I read that material options and appearance options are different because material options is all about mass calculation. Which got me thinking.... If Fusion 360 knows what material you're going to build out of, is there any way to have it calculate how a guitar will hang? Particularly, to calculate if neck-dive will be an issue. If it can, that would be amazing....

I, for one, would love to see a breakdown on how you made the L for the logo. Most of us are trying to master woodwork... metal work is another realm entirely.

This looks fun. Tangentially related: I once shot a piece with the Mouradians about guitar care. Lovely blokes. And Pat Badger from Extreme was hanging around in the shope while we were setting up.

Fusion 360 looks great and I've started dabbling. Any good tutorials around online for it, particularly covering sketching using splines?