MzI Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 (edited) A while ago I made a custom neck thru bass that I designed. The build came out OK. There were balance problems with the neck being too heavy along with other things. The First design computer rendering The Actual guitar and now onto the new design Im working on this for fun outside of my class work for my digital manufacturing class which is a grad level class at the architecture school I go to. My first step towards cutting guitars with the cnc will be to make a 59 Flying V. THat is just about ready to be cut sometime this coming week id assume. As for the bass. It will be a full carved top. The hard problem will be to model it in 3d computer programs. I will more then likely use autocad to create the basic 2d plan and some of the 3d stuff such as pickups and control cavity layout. And then for the carve and the rendering I will use Rhino 3d and export that into master cam to create the tool paths and then cut the guitar into foam to get an idea of how the design is. Next step will be to reverse engineer it and find anything I dont like about the design, fix it and then continue on with cutting it again until i am happy with the design and at that point I will then cut it out of wood. Feel free to comment on the design and what not MzI all fixed Edited February 11, 2006 by MzI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 is that FLAMED purpleheart?!?! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MzI Posted February 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I wish. Its regular old eastern hard rock flamed maple. I stained the whole thing black before I cleared it so it kinda makes it looks like purple heart. The neck is a 5 piece laminate with maple and purple heart though. MzI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattia Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 is that FLAMED purpleheart?!?! Chris Hehe...I've seen that, though. Bob Cefalu has a thick-ish few drop tops, 75 bucks/pop, might even have thicker stock awaiting resawing: http://www.rctonewoods.rcefaluguitars.com/electric.htm I'm in no way affiliated, but I get quite a bit of acoustic guitar wood from him. Great guy, great products. Mz1: lookin' good, altohugh I don't really think the horns quite fit the smooth lines of the rest of the body. I'd like to see the line of the upper/lower horn follow or mirror the line of the lower bout curve a little better, and the lower horn de-bulked; there's too much mass there compared to the rest of the guitar, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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