Hello Lovely CNC People

[dazp1976]

Well, Archy seems we are made for each other, we can certainly provide the Jazz you need to put into your Jazz guitars.!
Dean

That's got to be your worst pun yet Dean

[dazp1976]

Well, Archy seems we are made for each other, we can certainly provide the Jazz you need to put into your Jazz guitars.!
Dean

That's got to be your worst pun yet Dean

[BeeceUK]

Hi,

I can certainly vouch for a JazzCNC when it comes to building guitars. I got my Jazz9060 for the purpose of building guitars at the back end of March as a complete CNC newbies and its a cracking piece of kit. I'm currently working on a Les Paul with my CNC which you can see the progress of here ...

http://www.mycncuk.com/threads/14702...azzCNC-machine

A 4th axis would be very useful for you, especially when it comes to Jazz guitar necks which often have a far deeper heel much like that of an acoustic guitar, being able to machine that heel with a rotating neck blank would be a great help and avoid the issues of using pins to flip the blank 4 times or struggling to find cutters that would do it all from the blank being fretboard down.

What I most appreciate about my Jazz CNC is that "it just works" which for a beginner to CNC cannot be overlooked, there's no pulling your hair out like you may do with a cheaper / inferior machine. I use Fusion 360 and I just export my G code as Mach3 tap files and load it into UCCNC and it cuts just as I would expect.

Hope this helps with your choice of a machine

Ben

[JAZZCNC]

That's got to be your worst pun yet Dean

Ye, was a bit cheesy but hey you got to put a bit of Jazz into these things...

[Archy]

Welcome to the forum Archy.
You're in the right place for good advice about a cnc machine, but there are also plenty of us who want to see the guitar grow when you get round to building it.

Kit

Thanks Kit.

[Archy]

Thanks Ben.

Yes I have been thinking about a 4th axis but budget is a cruel mistress.

You are spot on regarding the heal depth on a full body jazz guitar. I had been mulling that one over myself these last few days.

There are several ways to get round this:

1) Build laminated necks.
2) Build thinner bodies
3) Build a 2piece heal or a shallower heal with a thick cap. Kind of like the Benedetto style.

I thought I had worked out all the CAD CAM stuff (ignorance is bliss), so your Mach3 addition made me interested in why you have that extra stage between f360 and UCCNC. Is it because you wanted a controller so you didn't have to run a PC all the time?
That's what I would like to do. Saves the PC crashing and your work going down the pan.

Regards

Archy

[Archy]

Hi Dean. Sending you an email now.

Cheers.

[BeeceUK]

I thought I had worked out all the CAD CAM stuff (ignorance is bliss), so your Mach3 addition made me interested in why you have that extra stage between f360 and UCCNC. Is it because you wanted a controller so you didn't have to run a PC all the time?
That's what I would like to do. Saves the PC crashing and your work going down the pan.

Regards

Archy

Hi,

Im not entirely sure what you mean by this?

What I was meaning was that I just generate my toolpaths in Fusion and export the toolpaths using a Mach3 post processor in Fusion with a .tap file extension.

I then load this up on the PC attached to the CNC which runs UCCNC and the file works flawlessly.

I hope this explains your question?

[Archy]

Hi Ben

I thought Mach3 was a type of controller and since you can post process for UCCNC in F360 I didn't understand it's inclusion in the chain.

Could you explain further? I seem to be misunderstanding what Mach3 is or how it can function.

[BeeceUK]

Hi,

Im probably not the best person to give you a technical answer as I'm a total noob to this myself, but basically I have Fusion360 set up to use the MAch3 Mill post processer. This means that it creates file that are native to the Mach3 control software that alot of people use. UCCNC can read these files and run them and in my limited experience , runs them perfectly.

regards