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[VGCustomShop]

This guitar was made with the Power Route - it is only a prototype.  I have a nicer one that is almost finished.  The body is Meranti, the neck Spanish cedar.  The scale is 24.75, pickups are Seymour Duncan 59s.  The fingerboard is Katalox and has a 14" radius.  Thanks for taking a look.  The bridge is made of aluminum. It has quite a few flaws - but its the first heavily sculpted guitar using the PR - that I didn't screw up.  This guitar weights about 5 lbs.  It plays and sounds really nice.  The modeling was done with Moi3D and the rendering (white one) with Fusion 360 - we decided it looks better without the pickguard and prefer without the contoured the neck/body joint.

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[Derek the Admin]

Very sharp-looking instrument man. Thanks for posting it so we can check it out.

[VGCustomShop]

Mar 13, 2019 11:48:32 GMT Derek the Admin said:

Very sharp-looking instrument man. Thanks for posting it so we can check it out.

Thanks Derek - there are a lot of contours on this guitar.  The power route cut em all quickly and easily.  I used a 3/8 3 flute spiral ball nose bit.  Much easier than doing it by hand!  

[Derek the Admin]

I bet it is! I did notice it has a lot of contours. You could probably even show me a thing or two long in 3d cad/cam.

[Bruce]

Very nice. I like the aluminum bridge "ALUMINATI" 😀
So you're using Moi3D to do the modeling and then import into Fusion 360 to do the CAM? interesting.

[VGCustomShop]

Mar 17, 2019 23:10:52 GMT Bruce said:

Very nice. I like the aluminum bridge "ALUMINATI" 😀
So you're using Moi3D to do the modeling and then import into Fusion 360 to do the CAM? interesting.

Those bridges are cool and come in many colors. They're made of aluminum (as I'm sure you figured out already) by a small guitar builder out of the Chicago area - most of their guitars are made of Plexiglas.  They had a booth at the NAMM show earlier this year.  They very kindly turned me on to one and gave a discount on another to use on proto types - they're very well made and the designers are easy to communicate with.  MoI3D doesn't do rendering or CAM.  For the CAM mostly use Estlcam - but as of late I have not been thrilled with the 3D results - most likely will use Estlcam for 2D and go back to Fusion 360 for 3D CAM.  Thanks a lot for the interest.  Has anyone here used Deskproto?  Seriously thinking of pulling the trigger on their 3 axis version - it looks quite good and apparently has excellent customer service.