Electric Guitar

Post by **Denford Admin** » Thu 23 Mar , 2006 11:11 am

Here is a full size electric guitar we made using ProDesktop, QuickCAM PRO and a Denford router:

If anyone has some spare parts (free

) , it would be great to be able to build it up and try it out

ChrisZ · Post by **ChrisZ** » Thu 11 Oct , 2007 11:20 am

Hello

Can you tell me what sort of tooling you used to create the guitar body and if you have any other guitar body designs that i may be able to aquire.

thanks

chris

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Thu 11 Oct , 2007 11:36 am

Hi,

I used a 1/2" carbide counter top cutter that was 2" long for all the roughing then finished with an extra long 1/4" ball nose cutter.

ChrisZ · Post by **ChrisZ** » Thu 11 Oct , 2007 15:47 pm

Hi

can a counter top cutter also be described as an end mill. If not can you tell me what one is and how much they are.

chris

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Thu 11 Oct , 2007 16:12 pm

We bought some from screw fix but Trend sell a similar one

See the link below.

http://www.trend-uk.com/en/UK/product/T ... meter.html

ChrisZ · Post by **ChrisZ** » Tue 23 Oct , 2007 14:27 pm

Hi

Having lots of fun trying to make a guitar

but what do you think an appropriate feed for the 1/2" two flute cutter should be cutting through hardwood & MDF?

Also how long did it take for your guitar to be machined?

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Tue 23 Oct , 2007 16:12 pm

Hi.

I cut the Guitar out of Sepilia a brazillian hardwood. With the big cutter you can hog out the material. I was cutting 10-12 mm deep in one pass at about 3M / Min.

Typically you can cut a depth = to the cutter width in one pass in Hardwood. With MDF you may want to cut about 75% of the cutter width.

post some photos when you are done

It took about 30 mins a side to machine.

Denford Software & Machines

Denford Software & Machines

Electric Guitar

Electric Guitar

Guitar Body

Counter top cutter

Machining the Guitar