Got me some wood

Go me some jointed and glued together wood

Depending on heavy it is, I might do some chambering too.

Oh yes, for anyone paying attention, there's another body blank in the first pic.

I've just glued that one, but doubt it'll make it into a guitar this year.  But whilst the clamps were out ...

Looking forward to seeing this one develop @tv101. 

🎶🎸🙏🙂

Good going, keep it up!

Remember what I said about this build being Tele ISH

How's about this for Ish?

That's based on a Tele shape, but with some re-curving done.  And then a carved top.

Need to fix the carving issue on the lower horn, or I might just do that with some sandpaper.  The pickup cavities are deliberately that size/shape because I think I'll rear mount them.

In theory, stick a lump of timber on the CNC and press "Go".  Step back and wait (quite some time).

Next steps;

• Add a few more screw holes (pickup mounting)
• Add the holes for the controls / switch
• Maybe move the neck cavity & screw holes into the body a bit further
• Fiddle with that lower horn carving
• Flip the shape over the draw out the rear cavities

I'm going to stick some bits of mdf together to create something thick enough and give it a go ...

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That's out of a 3D design package, with toolpaths created for the CNC machine to cut.

A double-cut Tele? Oh my!

Got rid of most of that strange sticky-out bit on the lower horn

@tv101 damn, you have cnc? I’m jealous, although I don’t have the need. Not yet anyway.

I have looked into building my own using a Raspberry Pi as the controller. In case you’ve never heard of those they are little yet very capable computers based on smartphone processor chips. The motherboard is about the size of a smartphone too. Last time I checked I believe I could build the entire setup for about $400. 

Hi @Rathius - yes, I have CNC!

😀

I don't "need" it either, but I got lucky in that a friend of mine upgraded his original set-up to something much bigger (think the bed on his new one is 1m x 1m), so I bought his old one.

I used it on the previous build to get cavities and other bits cut very precisely.  This time I'm intending to go a step or two further and see what it's like with carving too.

The Pi is a very useful bit of kit.  I've got one set-up with 1Gb of micro-SD USB cards as my main media server, and another than hangs off my router to cleanse all my internet traffic of all ads and various other unwanted and unnecessary rubbish. 

I guess it would work fine as a CNC controller too, as that's a pretty lightweight task - when you look at the code that controls the machine, it's just a set of X/Y/Z co-ordinates that tells the cutter to go to position X/Y and drill down Z. 

$400 doesn't sound unreasonable if you've got the knowledge/skills to build the frame for the router with the motors/etc.

@tv101 Yeah it didn’t seem real hard to do but the difficulty I’m thinking is the accuracy in building the gantry. Not sure what brand or type of router they used. I’ll have to look it up again. Very interesting project though.

Can’t wait to see how yours turns out. I’ve just started on my second scratch build with #3 starting next week hopefully.

Mine was effectively a home-build CNC machine, in that the guy who built mine builds them as a bit of a hobby-business, so it certainly can be done.  If you've got the metalwork skills, and the tools to work with it accurately, no reason why you couldn't source the bits and put one together.

Though I'd rather spend my time using it to make stuff, rather than making the CNC itself!

I do like this @tv101. 👍 

🎸🎶🙏🙂

Cheers @Russ.

I started out the a standard Tele, and a standard LP DC.

Then I thinned the waist and bottom end of the Tele and cut off the upper bout, getting it a bit closer to the DC shape.

Looking at it afresh, the lower horn is maybe not quite right yet, but I’m hoping to try cutting it out of some multiple layers of MDF over the weekend to see what it looks like in real 3D.  I might then rework the design a bit.

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Looking at it afresh, the lower horn is maybe not quite right yet, but I’m hoping to try cutting it out of some multiple layers of MDF over the weeke

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nd to see what it looks like in real 3D.  I might then rework the design a bit.

Looking forward to seeing it myself @tv101.

🙂🎸🎶🙏

And we're off ...

(Can you see what it is yet??)

I had a bit of a "don't-trust-the-machine" half way through the job.

I think, if I'd trust it and let it finish the stage it was on, then the little raised section on the inside of the carve would been removed.  I'm guessing that I'd left a tiny bit of "gap above the model" which was being removed, hence the middle section of the body has had ~1mm surfaced off it.

I panicked a little at that stage because I thought it was starting to cut into the carve area.  Should probably have left it.

But that's why attempt #1 is on a piece of mdf, not a piece of tasty timber!

This still needs a bit of sanding to finish off.

I'd tweaked the shape slightly before I started.  Happier with the re-shaped and smaller lower horn now.

@tv101  That looks good. I've never used a CNC router, but I'm just wondering if you had left it on the bed and re-ran (if thats possible) the stage that you had stopped , would it have taken off the bits that were missed?

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but I'm just wondering if you had left it on the bed and re-ran (if thats possible) the stage that you had stopped , would it have taken off the bits that were missed?

Probably - or possibly - @Robin. 

I decided to abort that task, just in case it ended up doing more harm.  I'm re-running the simulation at the moment to try to work out why it did what it did.  Thus far, I can't really see why!

I'm learning as I go ...