CNC Project - Guitar Neck (and the rest if I can get away with it)

**Clive S** · 01-02-2016

Nice vid as always and good to show mistakes warts and all

. I noticed that you are going to finally put homing switches on using mechanical switches if you mount them as you indicated it will only be a matter of time before you crush them.

It is better to mount them so that the gantry or whatever can ride over them it is easier to use proxy switches mounted at right angles to the direction of travel so that the target runs over the top of the switch.

**fwm891** · 28-01-2018

Superb thread.

I was expecting you to cut another slot in the baseboard to mimic the truss rod slot and use that as a register to machine the reverse of the neck. But then noticed your register pins...
You had some roughness problems which to me were to do with cutter rotation and timber grain directions. Might get over that by changing the cutter travel direction in local areas to avoid the grain lifting?

Soon have strings on!

**njhussey** · 09-02-2016

Looking good Chris, following this with great interest...

**Washout** · 10-02-2016

Originally Posted by njhussey

Looking good Chris, following this with great interest...

Thanks Neil,

Looks like there might be a bit of a gap in videos for this project, as I'm stuck whilst waiting for deliveries of both hardware to make sure the body routes and drilling is correct and some acrylic glue for the neck binding.

Luckily there's plenty of other projects to do...

**Washout** · 23-02-2016

Part 7 - no CNC in this video due to binding the necks, but that will resume for the next two videos to come:

**Washout** · 27-02-2016

Part 8 is up in 2 videos - 8a is a walkthrough of Fusion 360 end to end and 8b is the machining:

**suesi34e** · 28-02-2016

Originally Posted by Washout

Part 8 is up in 2 videos - 8a is a walkthrough of Fusion 360 end to end and 8b is the machining:

As ever a great video from you. Yours are up there with the ones I most like to watch on YT.

Many thanks

Steve

**JAZZCNC** · 28-02-2016

Doing great work Washout but let your machine and cutters have there head. This killing me It's like watching a thoroughbred horse being used for Donkey on beach.!! . . . It's cruelty to Machines.

Turn up the feeds watch your cycle times drop, tool ife increase and finish get better.!

**Wal** · 18-04-2016

Looks very happy cutting at those speeds!

Wal.

**JAZZCNC** · 18-04-2016

Much better your cuttters and machine will thank you for it as well. Bet the Finish is smoother as well.?

One other thing I noticed and not sure if you have control over this or not but will save lot of time is the fact the tool is retracting above surface every time arc ends and tool returns to start while in the pocket. No need for this it's just wasting time and wearing ballscrew away, just retract 0.5. Strange thou because I can see it does this while cleaning corners out but on the large sweep cuts it retracts Z every time.?