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  1. thaumgarrett
    Sounds great!! Always good to see a project come to fruition.
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    Hmm good call. I've fixed that now. I think subconsciously I was trying to leave enough wood for the ring mounting screws but it wasn't until reading your response that I realized (duh) they aren't as deep as the actual pickup screws. And this is why y'all have a wonderful community
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    They say that failure is proof that you're trying and earlier this week I got a LOT of proof. -- Machine tolerance is too high to cut a neck pocket with no cutaway -- Routing a 2.5-D cut for the output jack removes so much material that the surrounding surface becomes unfinish-able -- Hand-routing all these deep pockets that I added to leave room for the pots and switches is a horrible chore that I messed up about 100 times in as many seconds So here's the next iteration.... + Tele-style body instead of firebird + 1.5" thick instead of 1" + rectangular cavity covers instead of the weird rounded shapes I was using last time + and probably going to use a reverse strat jack plate
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    Hope you asked him to post a video.
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    This one's going to have a 1" thick body (because those are 1/2" sheets in the diagram) so hopefully that will cut down on the weight some. And in my own experience the birch we use is very resilient and also very difficult to warp. If there's a common complaint it's that the top ply is annoyingly easy splinter and separate while tooling, but it's nothing bondo and a coat of primer can't fix. Enjoy your popcorn.
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    Halloo again. In the spirit of continuing this adventure, here's my next project... Context is that I'm not a woodworker but I do work at a business that does a LOT of CNC with Russian birch. I know CNC routing guitars isn't new, but I'd wondered if there was a way to make an entire guitar body - neck and pickup pockets, wire channels, cavity covers, the whole bit - out of a single sheet of plywood with minimal hand-work afterward. This is actually my second attempt at doing this. The first version was 3-ply, weighed a lot more than expected, and had a buzz that I couldn't diagnose because the wiring scheme was impractical in ways I hadn't realized until it was too late. Hopefully this will turn out better in every way. Planning to have it cut some time before the end of September. Fingers crossed....
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    Just dropping in to say your dedication to this project even in spite of all the setbacks is admirable. I started building specifically because I'm terrible at finishing what I start and I wanted to finally give my kids a good example of (finally) seeing things through, and this thread has been very inspiring in that regard. Looking forward to the results. Cheers.
  8. thaumgarrett
    Hello all. My name is Garrett and this is my music box... Made mostly out of spare parts that I had lying around from gutting / modding other guitars, it stands as the first thing I've built that actually makes proper noise. Go ahead and laugh.
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