Hi Joe, I fear you may be right about the tolerances of the ornamental mill. Just incase though I will, at some point, upload a few pdf files of guitar necks. I have attached an image of my first attempt at a lap bass guitar, 8 strings. This was made on the Larken Router and is a piece longer then the milling bed, so it was fed through and back many times carving both top and bottom. Came out less then an 8th of an inch longer then designed. You will notice the body is pretty much a mirror or symmetrical left to right. It would be possible to build guitar bodies if you wanted to take the time to create the various templates/guides. Once that was done the Legacy 1200 would bang them out much quicker then the Larken.
If I can get the Legacy 1200 mill to plane down material I will be happy. 34" custom guitar necks can wait. Though with what little I've used it thus far I believe if an affordable and accurate DRO system was added it could make guitar necks and really help me out with layout of long piece to improve my accuracy when feeding them through the CNC router. PS the Lap Bass was carved from a solid block of fir because that is what I had laying around. A semi hollow body, more boxy version is in the design phase. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vqJKTqMEVfs/WoxtiEU9a6I/AAAAAAAABMo/7STZ59pQt3AbNI3UGaD6IHfhgZT9EMH7wCLcBGAs/s1600/lapBass.jpg> On Monday, February 19, 2018 at 6:47:41 AM UTC-8, joe biunno wrote: > > hi tim!...my first thought after reading your post is to say that you > might not be happy with the tolerance level a legacy, converted to CNC, > could provide you, especially since you are accustomed to working with some > very nice, precision equipment... you could add linear bearings to the > three axis', and stepper motors, and all the other bells and whistles > needed to do the work you want, but in the end you wind up with a machine > that might not live up to it's billing and your standards... plus the > legacy's capacity is a bit small for a guitar body, I would think...a > guitar neck would fit though...the idea of carving/milling details into the > body and/or neck of a guitar is excellent, and could have great potential > for some sales...all good and interesting stuff...joe biunno > > >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
