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Hi. I have been building my own axes over the summer by hand, and i want to have my guitars made with a CNC machine. My brother and i have come up with some killer desings on CAD KEY19 and really want to make em, but we just dont have the skill, or the time. Are there any companies out there that i can send the file and the wood to that will mill my guitar and neck?

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You should check at a local machine shop. Mostly they'll be set up for metalwork, so they might say no, but that would probably be your best shot.

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also, http://www.taigtools.com/ has starter cnc's, but they are in the 1500$ range i think, and dont have the large dimensions like what your looking for.

you have to think that someone making a cnc does it to usually make *small* things at a *high* degree of accuracy (.001").

for a guitar you need *large* at a *medium* accuracy. almost easier to build a copycarver or a ghetto router-mill setup. all the money in a cnc is being automated and accurate. kind of a waste for what were doing

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Might wanna try emachineshop.com...they just started out, read about them on CNN. They claim around a 1 month turnaround. Not bad at all for a custom order part. Might be worth a shot, who knows.

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i beleive jim will provide cnc cervices and even the wood for a price, if you have the files ready to go he's already setup for doing guitars.

http://www.noahjames.com/

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yeh, it is relatively expensive. the main cost is in how many axes you do, the expensive stainless 1" threaded rod, and the stepper motors and controllers.

cheapest ive seen a set of 3 stepper motors and a controller card was about 400$.

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