Excellent video! Wish this was available before I quit my job as a CNC engineer! I actually made many custom stuff, scaled bass replicas, some stage stuff for my band, beer can openers for all my close friends and a ΒΒQ with a dragon theme from the stand to the walls. The program I used was CypOne and Metalcut on Windows if anyone is interested.
Thanks for the tutorial. I've been using Lightburn for a while but still learned a couple new things here. Awesome! Quick suggestion for a shortcut when rounding for corners for the pickup hole. After you get your rectangle sized correctly, you can use the Shape Properties tab (bottom right of the cuts/layers panel) to add radius to all the corners at once. Doing it this way leaves it editable if you want to adjust it later on. To get the radius exact (for this one where it's hemispherical on the ends) without trial and error just take the height of your rectangle and divide it by two.
Another “Git r done” start to finish lesson! LOVE your channel, and your humbleness, DAN. Been with you from the start, and will remain in your posse! ⭐️⭐️🙏⭐️⭐️
dan, the more I watch of you describing these systems, especially how to basically designing pick guards from files, it's really giving me thoughts on what I could do. Sure, its an investment, but especially the size, I don't have much space as it is, this would be perfect for pickup rings, pick guards, Trussrod Covers I also use veneers to give the plywood some variety, this could be the step to get better results.
Dan, love the video. But you know good & well I'm just gonna have you custom make me a pick guard! It's just much easier that way. God bless you, Jenna & the kiddos! Talk to you soon buddy... ✌
Wait, a Tele? Seriously that's a very cool, very interesting laser. And I would be seriously interested in a longer adaption to it. This is definitely an area I would be very interested in doing myself, so hopefully one of these days I can put the cash together to do a good decent laser for cutting.
Thanks for the video. Based on your review I ended up taking the plunge and getting the longer ray5 to start my journey. so I may have a question or two down the road!
Is the laser fine enough to do custom inscriptions on truss rod covers? Does it work on shell to cut inlay pieces? Will it engrave aluminum? Apologies for the multiple questions, but the possibilities seem massive with a piece of equipment like that! Awesome tutorial, awesome content as always! Keep crushing it!
FYI if you have a Creality 3D printer, they also make 1.6/5/10w laser engraver modules so you don't need to buy a separate machine. I assume the 10w would be more than enough for making pickguards. I'm about to 3D print a "Prusacaster" using a Harley benton T style DIY kit, and I was wondering if I could make a custom pickguard for it. Is it better to make it from wood and then apply some top coating or cut directly from a sheet of acrylic? FYI, yours is the 1st video I watch aboput making a pickguard, I know nothing about the process. Well except don't laser cut flammable material. :)
Mac have trackpads and PC have mice? 🤔 That's some funny stuff. Once in lightburn there are literally no differences... Even can use a trackpads on a PC if you want to torture yourself (mice have so much more control, and available on Mac 🤣) Great video though. About to make my own pickguard for my jazzmaster type guitar but completely different controls. Thanks for posting.
I said Mac *laptop* to differentiate two things. Mac OS, and trackpad. Yes PC laptops have trackpads, yes Macs can use a mouse. I mentioned it so people didn’t get confused when I said “hit command+X” since PC’s don’t have “command” they have “control.” I also didn’t want people confused when watching me zoom by sliding my fingers on a trackpad instead of using a mouse wheel, etc. it was just a disclaimer that my exact terminology or gestures maybe not translate 100% to everyone’s computer setup.
@@GunsandGuitars I was just kidding around . Found it funny. Oddly my Mac has no trackpads and my PC does. Mac mini and surface studio pro. I will say the cmd to Ctrl switching between two still gets me all the time after 30 years. Takes my brain a few times upon switching. Curiously have you done acrylic sheets yet? Or just the plywood? I'm going to do tests on plywood because I can get that easy at the local box store. But thinking of acrylic for final pickguard. Working on a design that does both cutting with laser and image etching.
Was just wondering why you didn't use trace image,does this not work as well as the he method you used. also will be using the site for the pick gaurds thanx 👍
It’s a honeycomb grid, and I prefer the x-tool honeycomb because it’s larger, and made of steel so I can hold down my material with magnets instead of clamps
Why laser instead of cnc with a 1/8 bit? I have a CNC machine and wondering if this is something I should get, but if I can do the same thing on the CNC...
I don't think I could that without a mouse. I use Bluebeam a lot for my day job. That program seems more like AUTOCAD. Not very intuitive to learn. Made that way on purpose I think.
