Nice video, exactly what I was looking for. Fitting a premade neck into new cnc body. Will try .01 offset and then .02", see what fits better on scrap wood first then cut on work piece. Thanks again, Your videos are like my Saturday morning cartoons.
Your work is brilliant and your words equally so! The process you are evolving is a journey, thank you for sharing it and for sharing your insights within it 👌🏻
@@TwoCherriesIns I’m looking forward to them. I have tinkered with some of these issues on the cnc and for sure the more you learn the less you realise you knew … so you just have to keep digging deeper and learning but that process, is in itself, fun … and also a little infuriating at times! 🤣👍🏻 keep up the great work and videos
Hi, I love your videos. The quality of production is impressive. You make beautiful the CNC process. Can you clarify If I undestood your process for fitting the neck? - You make finishing passes with positive to negative variances, while checking at the end of each pass if you have a good fit. Is that right. You only showed this at the end of the process. Once you have learned the right variance for the finishing pass, you use that for production of future units, or you do the testing for each body? I have to test the masking tape and superglue trick in my setups! Keep it up.
Thanks, I appreciate that; I have always found it an interesting subject matter for videography. I'm happy to help you understand what I'm doing and why I do it. Tolerance fit is a complex subject, and it can be even more challenging in this material. You are correct that I start with a positive "stock to leave," as in Fusion360, usually around 0.010"; I take passes of 0.005" each until the fit meets the client's specification. With wood, each species, and at times, each piece of lumber can result in different tolerances. If the specification for the client is to make each neck fit very closely, as it was in this case, I have to go through this process with each body neck set. I find that this tolerance fit makes very little to any discernible variance in tone quality, but I'm happy to indulge my clients with their experimentation.
This is not my trick; it's actually an old trick. I saw it first used for holing templates instead of double-sided tape, and that's where I first saw it used. It's simple you burnish tape into the parts, and it makes the tape stick very well. Then you use CA glue to hold the two backsides of the tape together; it works surprisingly well and withstands vibration better than most double-sided tape; it's also very inexpensive.
