Hello friends! Hoping you can assist me with some guitar builds!

[JAZZCNC]

Hi Tim,

What you are asking for might not exactly be a little thing.!!

If you are just talking about cutting out body blanks then that's not so much a Big thing and relatively simple, However.!

If it's 3D work like what many guitar bodies and necks require, it is very time-consuming and can be intricate work so the costs will be high.
Machine time for a business to cut it can be anything from £40 to £150 per hour depending on the machine, plus can have extras like setup, fixtures, artwork, and tooling fee's again depending on complexity and materials.

The file sizes and job cutting times for 3D work often runs into multiple hours just for small jobs. A guitar body I'd class as a Mid-level sized job that could easily take 8 to 10hrs for a relatively average design and much longer for a complex design that requires high detail with a high-quality surface finish many more hours. I've cut 3D jobs that have run for 36hrs continuously and it wasn't massive.

The CAM programming alone just to produce the G-code file can take many hours and cost £40 to £80 per hour.

Many Hobby or DIY builders won't like to run their machines for 8+ hours continuously because of the wear, noise, heat, and the fact they don't like to walk away and leave the machine running unattended.
Also, many machines can't even handle running those periods of time as the heat and dust, etc knock seven bells out of the machine that then causes errors of failures.
3D work is often made up of tiny little moves, often with all axis moving at the same time relatively quickly so It takes a good machine to run continuously at high feed rates for 8+ hours that won't lose its position and still produce the part correctly, or worse snap tools 7.5hrs into an 8hr job with a piece of material that costs £150.

So like I say it's not a little thing your asking for doing and expect to pay £££