inspiration thread

[kingcreaky]

oohh i do like a nice youtube video... watched them all on your channel, subscribed and eager for more. keep up the good work.

[grain_r]

Hey Guys Just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration it certainly does make a difference and everything I have seen looks fantastic. The main problem I have is too many hobbies and would love to make all of these things but I guess I should finish my machine first. Hey Matt well done on starting this thread it is a great Idea I still have the sample piece that you made when I was with you on my desk as an inspiration too.
Thanks

Rob

[Rye]

Can't say I've been making anything "easy" like planes and guitars but, apart from a few signs/ plaques and a real badly designed butter dish, I've been making a few of these:





Started with HDPE bases, but moved to black and silver Dibond. Much better and very "hard" to make ;)

[Jonathan]

One of the first things I made with my CNC router, with some help from my mill, a water cooling block for an i7 processor:



The funny colour is from the anodising.

[Wal]

A recent project - mother of pearl 'Punisher' fret marker inlays for a local guitar maker. They take bloody ages..! (But look alright...)

The smallest end-mill I used was a 0.2mm on the higher markers - thankfully I only broke the one. Very slow feeds - 1.75mm/sec and a 0.75 DOC.





Once installed, the pockets in the pearl will be black-epoxy filled and then sanded back flush to the ebony fingerboard. Looking forward to seeing this coming together - glad I'm not sanding that ebony board, though... For reference - the pockets in the ebony were cut with .08mm clearance - the markers seem to fit very nicely, although I didn't get to push 'em in all the way...

Wal.

[Washout]

Very nice Wal - I'm about one spare evening away from trying to cut the rosewood finger boards on my Jaguar project and will be using a 0.5mm end mill for the fret slots (fret spacing seems to be made for CNC work IMHO provided I don't snap the tool). Your work makes me think I should do something more ornate than dot inlays....

[Wal]

Very nice Wal - I'm about one spare evening away from trying to cut the rosewood finger boards on my Jaguar project and will be using a 0.5mm end mill for the fret slots (fret spacing seems to be made for CNC work IMHO provided I don't snap the tool). Your work makes me think I should do something more ornate than dot inlays....

Hi Washout,

Yeah I've followed that neck project a bit. Nice seeing it in progress. Yes, you should definitely try something different with the markers! Easy to say though, as I'm not sure what I'd do for my own build... Will your 0.5 cutter have enough depth for cutting the slots or are you profiling the radius before you cut 'em. I ask as I noticed that the slots were cut quite deep on this board (by luthier) and I needed a long necked 0.5 cutter to do those perimeter grooves around the pockets...

Wal.

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