Yes you do! :) It can be very rewarding and frustrating at the same time but I’m learning every day. Thanks I appreciate your encouragement! I may change the name of this video to “Building a Telecaster with a cnc”
Bro this is my issue! First ever refret job and the slots were so wide, couldn’t get .023” tangs to seat in half the slots. I ordered the fret crimper tool because the CA glue and dust trick failed.
Yeah the fret crimper although kind of pricey saved my neck build. Let me know how it goes with it for you. It will widen them quite a bit to fit a wider slot
I always love seeing how guitars are made, as to playing them. Gives a new respect to the people who make them and the instrument itself. Beautiful work, man.
Great job! I made foil shielding on my first electric guitar as upgrade, but after few days I removed the shielding. The guitar had low noise, but the “tone” was sterile and lifeless. The shielding destroyed the high frequencies.
Looks beautiful. Here in Europe it's actually cheaper to buy a complete loaded Fender Tex Mex Strat pickguard than buying the individual components. This is a no brainer . Less work, less money and less hassle if , unfortunately, one of the electronic components is faulty. Getting warranty replacements for individual faulty components that you've soldered yourself can be a nightmare.
True! I just recently learned CNC. I’m also wanting to incorporate 3D printing and laser cutting. I built my first 2 entirely bye hand. Work smart right?!
You should learn then. I learned all of this on RU-vid. If you do feel free to ask questions. I’ll be glad to guide you toward the resources that helped me
@@Studtguitars I think for a first guitar I just wanna build the and paint the body, then buy the neck because that’s a little more technical. I can assemble my own guitar I’ve done electronics and all that. I think I’d love a PRS type body and a flammed top. Don’t know how to paint but I have a compresser that I could attach a paint nozzle to paint
That's an interesting blend of CNC and hand techniques. Would it not have been better to have glued the maple to the mahogany _before_ any CNC work though? What's the reason for doing it the way you did?
Great looking guitar! I like the angela dyes they really let you go back and forth to adjust the color after you apply it. My profile picture is the guitar Ive used them on but sadly the most of the footage was on lost on a corrupted gopro. The only problem i had is the paper thin veneer peeled up in one spot on my last dye application. I use skinny top heavy bottom strings but haven’t tried anything except ernie ball and d’addario
Thanks man I appreciate that! I like the color on yours. I agree you can really easily use their dye to blend and go darker and lighter. I haven’t tried D’addario on electric I should try them
@@Studtguitars Some people like d'addario but I've never liked their expensive nor cheap strings. The ernie balls work great and seem to last a couple months before I start noticing rust. The D'Addario's have felt dead in about a week for me. I swear by elixir on acoustic and thought about trying their electric strings.
Thanks Ken!... Love your video work... Love your presentation... Love your processes... Love what you're building...! Thank you for making the time to show us. 👍
Haha! Yeah you’re the first to comment on that. I broke it doing work unrelated to guitar stuff. I was actually waiting for surgery and had a pin in it for 3 months
Would this information work in arduino based cnc router ? Z axis does not return to the origin height. And sometimes it returns same origin but sometime does not.
Yes I built mine with an arduino. If it’s not grounded they interfere with each other. I always home it before I start it. When I forget that can happen. Is it off a lot?
I really couldn’t answer that question without seeing it but the arduino is just a controller so you can control stepper motors but what else you’re using I couldn’t say. I’m assuming you’re not trying to control servo motors although you probably could. I have no experience with servos
@@Studtguitarsit took you hundreds of hours to learn to dial in a machine? You should have just made it by hand, it would have been far more impressive and taken the same amount of time.
@@HermanMunster420 I did build this machine. I’ve shared this project on my channel. I was new to CNC which is why it took me a while to build it, learn the software for the machine then Fusion 360 then dial it in. I’m not sure exactly how long just making a point
@@Studtguitars ok whatever dude. Who cares? Go do your thing. Stop wasting time with an obvious loser like me. You got plenty of sycophants in your comments section. Don't waste your time with the one free thinker who doesn't immediately drop to his knees to praise you. Life is not constant praise.
Yes it was preference on this only because haven’t done the work in Fusion and I didn’t want to go through all of the testing on it. I have short where I did the back of a telecaster. I’m actually doing this video with commentary and will go through why I did some of the things the way I did. Thanks for the comment! Good question
@@Studtguitars I appreciate it I definitely will. I am a newbie so I have a lot to learn, got stew Mac’s big guitar making book. Thank you take care 🤙🏽
