wearymicrobe
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Got one of the last major expensive piece's ordered for the ukulele biz, send my build templates out for the electric ukes to be cut in 1/4 inch steel with a waterjet, they will be back in about a month as they are doing them during the slow periods to keep the cost down.
Now all I have to do is get the tone circuit dialed in and finalized and build ~20 or so of them, and use my bridge slotter jig to built 20 as well.
I have been testing the CNC of the necks with some crappy wood and it is working ok but since I don't have a home postion on my machine if it dies during the cut it makes my life miserable. I have this terrible feeling that I am going to have to outsource the cut after I finalize the map.
I have been tracking down a bunch of hog in the right dimensions and some really cool top wood. I expect to do most of the tops off a piece of Koa that I got from the evilbay.
I have tried to cad up a good looking headstock which is surprisingly hard to do, I have a feeling I am going to just miniaturize a GS/GA open headstock and do a overlay with ebony.
I think I really need a thickness planer and 20' bandsaw to make things go smoother. If thats the case then I am going to dump some of my collection to get the cash together.
I will have around .1mm tolerance off the jigs I hope, if they don;t work I will send the bodies out for cnc routing of the dxf's I made, but I would prefer not to do that and just use the jigs.
Also I got a new vacuum pump out of the trash at the office that I rebuilt so now I can do carbon veneer tops like the new style classicals.
Now all I have to do is get the tone circuit dialed in and finalized and build ~20 or so of them, and use my bridge slotter jig to built 20 as well.
I have been testing the CNC of the necks with some crappy wood and it is working ok but since I don't have a home postion on my machine if it dies during the cut it makes my life miserable. I have this terrible feeling that I am going to have to outsource the cut after I finalize the map.
I have been tracking down a bunch of hog in the right dimensions and some really cool top wood. I expect to do most of the tops off a piece of Koa that I got from the evilbay.
I have tried to cad up a good looking headstock which is surprisingly hard to do, I have a feeling I am going to just miniaturize a GS/GA open headstock and do a overlay with ebony.
I think I really need a thickness planer and 20' bandsaw to make things go smoother. If thats the case then I am going to dump some of my collection to get the cash together.
I will have around .1mm tolerance off the jigs I hope, if they don;t work I will send the bodies out for cnc routing of the dxf's I made, but I would prefer not to do that and just use the jigs.
Also I got a new vacuum pump out of the trash at the office that I rebuilt so now I can do carbon veneer tops like the new style classicals.
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