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This is the first mock up I made to get an idea of weight, size and feel as well as the processes I would use for the final guitar. It was CNC milled out of birch ply and the neck was made of pine.
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I modeled the guitar in Rhino to get an idea of size and looks, as well as an understanding of how it all fit together.
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I used a combination of 2D and 3D shapes to save time on the CNC mill. This is what the final fabrication vectors look like on Rhino.
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The aluminium pickguard was water jet cut. I offset the vectors by the width of the water cutting jet (0.3mm) so that I wouldn't have to file to much. Even with a press fit tolerance of 0.15 mm it was too tight so I ended up having to adjust the size of the pick guard with a file anyway.
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The body and neck was stained with water based wood stain because it wouldn't have much build up and react with any top coat I decided to put on.
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I used 1 tone and 1 volume potentiometers with two passive humbuckers. This gave the guitar a great classic rock sound.
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