Newbie seeking CNC info for guitar building

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[QUOTE=rusty999;75821]

Hi Rusty

Welcome aboard firstly.




Thanks a million for the info . I really enjoyed your videos. Whats the name of the machine you use or is it something you assembled yourself ? I was trying to budget at around 2-2500 euros as I had planned to buy the set of acoustic cnc plans from "Ultimate Guitar Plans Online" and load them. They are quite expensive but it would hopefully be a one off purchase. Its looking doubtful if I will find a machine that suits at that price though. But, I will keep trying anyway.
Thanks again
Rusty

The machine is home designed/built (with plenty of helpful advice from the folks here)- there is a build log thread somewhere - I'll see if I can fish it out.

I probably have more rigidity and therefore more cost in my machine than you would need if you stick strictly to woods/plastics and mine came in around £2,500 including software (I've spent a bit more since I built it in some upgrades). So you would likely squeeze in at your intended budget and especially if you can weld a steel frame rather than using extrusion - that's trading ease of assembly for cost/time.

I would advise extreme caution when looking at commercial machines - there are lots of snake-oil merchants out there selling under specced machines for overspecced prices IMHO and you only need to look at milling machine prices for non-CNC and CNC variants of the same machine to see this i.e. £3000+ price difference for a few steppers, ballscrews and brackets etc. in some cases.