Carving guitar tops

[liquidguitars]

hello,

Downloaded the Carvewright software and i like the way it works..
Here is a image of a guitar body that I would like to try...



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[RobertP]

WOW! now that is cool! How long did it take you to design that?

[liquidguitars]

thanks,
It took me about 10 mins for the setup after thinking about the porceedure and looking at the ink bath idea. The 3D guitar model, I made about 8hrs. I inported the cad infomation as a hack and it seems to be ok. I do not have a machine to check/debug data pockets ect.. but I do not see why it will not work...

[Dookychase]

Hey liquidguitars, how wide is the lower bout of that guitar? I was interested in getting a machine to carve an archtop.

I emailed Carvewright and was told that they want to produce a wider machine in about a year. It would be in the 20-24" range.

Thanks
Pookie

[liquidguitars]

lower bout should be 13" typ for electric guitars so 15 is cool...
The Jazz guitars will need 16" to 17"

[Greybeard]

...Playing with how to inport the cad infomation as a hack and it seems to be ok. ...

Would you care to expand a little on the detail of the "hack" ?

John

[liquidguitars]

hello in the UK.. I used the idea of your plastic figure immersed in a black dye bath detail" very cool BTW"was able to project the virtual ink well map

[Dookychase]

Liquidguitars, the archtop size I'm interested in carving would be small like the Ibanez Gerge Benson Model GB10. Its about 14 1/2" at the lower bout.
Sadowsky builds the Jimmy Bruno model thats 14 3/4" at the lower bout.

Keep us posted on your guitar progress.

Thanks
Pookie

[liquidguitars]

14 3/4" shoud work with the CarveWright standered model as you can mill a 15" wide board right?

[Dookychase]

I really don't know exactly how wide the unit will cut. Could you possibly try and cut across a scrap piece of wood to see exactly how wide the bit will travel to cut?

I went to see one at Sears and I mearsured 15" across the table and it seemed that the cutting head travels wider but couldn't tell if it would actually cut close to 15".

Thanks for your time.
Pookie