curtisa Posted April 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 Hadn't heard of Mera. Looks very similar to the T4M stuff. Good find. Maybe you should purchase a set and we can compare notes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightroExpress Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 Sounds like a good plan! I've been meaning to message Mera so I can get a quote on an 8 string set anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightroExpress Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 Sorry for the double post, but I figured this would be good info for you. I've been talking with Dmitry (the owner over at Mera) for the last hour or so and he's simply excellent to work with. He offers great service and will even make custom baseplates to fit your desired bridge angle. Good prices, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 Do we need to do a supplier focus on Mera? They're a new name to me, so it would be a good exercise in consciousness-raising! A product review would be sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightroExpress Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 I'm definitely going to order a set within the next couple months. I'll do a little writeup whenever I get them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavromulabeta Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 @curtisa, sorry to back track a page - thanks for the link to the articles, they are a much appreciated (and excellently produced) resource! I will be following your CNC guide quite closely once I get the new toy! I was assuming that I would need to come up with a method for two passes in any case. I suppose you could code in a marker to each pattern (which cuts off the work piece) to line up each set-up. Good to know that the 3020 is sufficient for most things. It certainly makes more sense in terms of bench real estate and cash up front! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Certainly does. I'd like to think that we can invest in one this side of the planet too within a year or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted April 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 20 hours ago, Stavromulabeta said: @curtisa, sorry to back track a page - thanks for the link to the articles, they are a much appreciated (and excellently produced) resource! I will be following your CNC guide quite closely once I get the new toy! I was assuming that I would need to come up with a method for two passes in any case. I suppose you could code in a marker to each pattern (which cuts off the work piece) to line up each set-up. Good to know that the 3020 is sufficient for most things. It certainly makes more sense in terms of bench real estate and cash up front! Good to hear you're finding it useful. There will be further 'episodes' which should provide more detail to the processes involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted April 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 A neck with no headstock means there's nowehere to put the logo in the usual spot. The most common place I've seen them go on headless builds is above the neck where it meets the body, so that's where we'll slap it on. The CNC being too small to accept the full width of the body means I have plan ahead and mill the logo before the top gets glued up: Then rough cut and insert a pair of strategically-placed brads to prevent the top slipping around while gluing: And clamp the bejesus out of it, taking care not to apply pressure over the chambers: Trim the excess on the router table: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted April 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 Meanwhile, Plainjane gets underway: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 I've just noticed the body looks like Munch's "The Scream" or someone with their hands up saying don't shoot. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted April 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 Or a ghost? Boo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2k Posted April 21, 2016 Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 This is quite a show you are putting on here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted April 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 Fankinew, fankinew. I'm here all week. Do try the salad... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted April 21, 2016 Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 Let's all go to the lobby.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted May 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 I should probably call this strange contraption 'The Iron Maiden': 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted May 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 Neck no. 2 is getting a spoke wheel trussrod, with the adjuster at the heel, so all the heavy work needs to be done at the other end of the neck blank: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 Hey Curtisa where did you get that spoke wheel truss rod? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted May 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 Just on eBay. I gave them a stress test to make sure they weren't going to give me grief later on, and the spoke adjuster only has 5 holes which means the notch at the end of the fretboard needs to be a bit wider than I'd hoped, but otherwise they seem OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 Ah ok thanks for that. I've seen those on eBay and wonder if they're any good. I might try them in future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted May 7, 2016 Report Share Posted May 7, 2016 Rockin' builds so far! I really need to get to my headless idea soon too! Will be really interested to hear more about these Mera headless pieces. Out of curiosity. What size offset did you find worked well for the male vs. female parts of the inlay? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted May 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2016 Cheers Chris. 2 hours ago, verhoevenc said: What size offset did you find worked well for the male vs. female parts of the inlay? Zero offset, arrived at by trial and error. There must be just enough eccentricity in my spindle to make it work without having to do any additonal toolpath offsetting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted May 8, 2016 Report Share Posted May 8, 2016 Since I don't have a CNC available to me, I do wonder whether this is something one might accept as being "the personality" of a certain machine and/or spindle, and whether working whilst bearing its eccentricities in mind is part of general working practice at the level we use them at. Either that or whether it's something we need to rattle out as part of setup and maintenance. Slight amounts of slop in any work - when recognised and quantifiable - can be accepted as fit for purpose, or at least factored into whether we can achieve what we're aiming for. This is pretty obvious though, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted May 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2016 Wouldn't surprise me if that were the case. The unit I have is certainly only built to a certain price point, so I have to accept that it isn't ultra-precise in its fit and accuracy as a CNC costing 4 or 5 times as much. Could also be that multiple passes at ever-increasing depth of cut in certain materials will also change the fit of an inlay into its corresponding pocket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted May 9, 2016 Report Share Posted May 9, 2016 Very true. It's the old difference between accuracy and tolerance at play again, maybe. Still, it seems an awfully consistent offset that Chris is experiencing. Having a tenon that is too large and a pocket too small smacks of cutter sizing issues. I think (without scrolling back up) Chris mentioned something like 0,02" of slop? That can easily be a symptom of a cutter being 0,005" undersize. Not that much. The sidewalls of the pocket will be under 0,005" each and the tenon over by the same amount. I'd be willing to put a pint bet on that, or at least the nearest Metric equivalent (plus minus a little). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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