Thread: Andrews Projects (bass + guitar/s)

lol glad to know people read it all

LOL church..... you obviously havnt seen me.... if i walked into a church.. a few people would have a heart attack

hmm my workspace is just a single car garage....
its not a bad size... but the problem is i have motorbikes and a whole wall full of wood racks....
aswell as the back wall with cupboards of power tools along it.....
the other wall has my work benches, a few shelves above the benches, and a set of cupboards above the benches....

when you add all that up including the triton saw table and triton router table, triton jaws and a few milk crates of offcuts and things.....
i pretty much have a passage between my benches and the motorbikes/triton gear just big enough for me to walk through..... lol

not a big space at all....

and its a real pain in the ass....
i store a majority of my better timber and tools and half done projects in my room... lol

ahh fair enough. My dad just gave me his drill press today so I had to squash that into my shop. I built the majority of my Router table yesterday but its too big for my shop so its gonna stay it the carport and hope no one takes it lol. Ill just lock the router in the shop. I havent paid a cent for my table. I make kitchen benches for a living so i made myself a top for it, my dad cut the insert out of 10mm plastic at work and we have endless supply of mdf at work so I cut it all at work and brought it home and nailed it up.

Sometimes jobs have a good side lol

sweet!! get some pics of it up on your thread

i envy you for all the free cnc work you can get done
lol

haha. yea its pretty cool. It would be better if he could cut wood on it. Then I could get bodies mass produced!!!! It would be great for personal use and the possibility of $$$
My company are a bit tight these days an not letting personal jobs on their flatbeds. Stupid big corporations!!!

i had a fair few places say they wont do wood .....
sis he give you a reason?

im assuming its just cleanup and cutter issues

do they do steel?

as for the mass producing... thats just what we dont want lol.....
we want handmade guitars not machine made

have you checked out the cnc section of the forum?

i think its just to save there cutters mainly. i wouldnt ask him to anyway. i dont wanna take up too much of his time. hes already spent alot of time drawing the plans and stuff for me

CNC has its place in the guitar building world.

As far as custom one off builds, it has it's place in routing pickups, inlay, fretboards, neck mortices, necks..........

If I had the knowledge of programming I'd use it to free up my time for the things I need to do by hand. It's about making a business a more productive one and also precision engineering where it's a necessity.

oh ofcourse cnc has its place.....

but for me personally......
knowing that someone has slaved over a guitar for a few months and put alot of effort into it is alot more apealing than someone throwing a blank into a machine and taking the credit for the build

*shrugs*
everyone will think differently on the subject

yea i can see both points. Im happy that he can do the pickups and nect pocket on the milling machine. just means i dont have to worry about stuffing it up. being my first build, i dont want it to turn out unplayable. and im pretty picky with guitars so it has to be close to perfect

Originally Posted by Andrew_B

oh ofcourse cnc has its place.....

but for me personally......
knowing that someone has slaved over a guitar for a few months and put alot of effort into it is alot more apealing than someone throwing a blank into a machine and taking the credit for the build

*shrugs*
everyone will think differently on the subject

Of course handmade comes at a cost which is passed onto the customer in the end.
It's an hourly rate you're paying for . As long as the engineering in the design
is there in the programming, I don't see the problem.

Having said that, I'm all handmade but realise the advantages in both.

I worked in a joinery shop last year where we had a massive cnc router. The foreman helped me draw up some plans but I never got around to putting them into action.

sup andrew.

some nice work.

call it boland guitars

There's a Strathfield Men's Shed advertised on the forum!!

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...467#post916467

I don't see any real disagreement here regarding CNC. This forum is primarily amateur builders doing one-offs for themselves and friends, and we all have a limited range of tools (I assume). Each build thread, including this one, is a shared journey of the creative process and the ways in which we each accomplish our builds with the abilities, knowledge, and tools available to us.

One-offs on a CNC ... not sure. But if you were going professional, why wouldn't you use a machine to execute some elements of your design just to make things more efficient?

But I'm getting way too philosophical here ... perhaps I need to go to church with Andy B

hahaha!!! church buddies!!