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For the last 6 months or so, my life has been dominated by musical instruments, both playing them and modifying them. Ended up building a workshop for guitars
by daeken 13y ago
For the last 6 months or so, my life has been dominated by musical instruments, both playing them and modifying them. Ended up building a workshop for guitars because of it. Lately, I've been doing research into CNCing all the wooden parts of a guitar -- doing the whole body, the top, the neck, and the fretboard. I'm hoping to do a trial run in the next few months, if all goes to plan.
For those who aren't aware, renting time on a CNC is cheap. I found a nearby Shopbot that was being rented for about $30/hour. Estimating a total milling time of about 8 hours (to be very conservative), I'm looking at all of $240 to do the majority of the construction; pretty cheap, when you consider that a nice custom instrument can easily run $3k.
- badsock 13y agoGood plan! I made an electric tenor violin once (twice as big as a regular violin). The only difficult part of it was the fingerboard - very complex because it's curved in all three dimensions. It can take a luthier who knows what they're doing a couple of hours: certainly beyond my woodworking skills. Ended up writing a python script that figured out the geometry and dumped out STL, which I then sent to a small CNC shop. Turned out perfectly, and left me with the impression that electric instruments are especially strong candidates for this kind of manufacturing.