Bass Guitar Body By Hand & By CNC // PT 1 DIY Bass Guitar Plans

[@MangledGuitars]

So cool! Opens the door for so many people pro and not pro

[@SchlegFace765]

I'm digging the CNC body with the butcher block running in opposite directions, looks very cool!

[@faroironandcustoms6577]

Nice one Tim. I used my angle grinder and shaping wheel to cut the bowl in my shrinking stump. (Sheet metal work) and it is a seriously scary operation. Much more forgiving cutting the belly shapes in guitars. Looking forward to the next one.

[@sgsax]

Yeah, it might be time to start working on another guitar build. Lefty Lutesy, Righty Pinsky? 😁 Thanks for sharing!

[@toblexson5020]

The other benefits of making a template from a master, is that you can do little modifications (if you want to), and just generally learn how the template feels on the router. You can also buy dual bearing router bits, I have a trend one, which is nice, but there's also up/down bits on Rutlands that looks really nice.

[@zubalea]

Thank you so much for doing both method. Really appreciate it. Great job

[@Rebar77_real]

Love the lefty love!

[@ACNailedIt]

I’m so glad you made this Bass package with the V carve files. I’ve been wanting to do my own designs, but didn’t really have a good example to go by. Can’t wait to get these and start digging into your techniques! Excellent video once again!

[@timsway]

use my files and edit the shape the way you want it!

[@ACNailedIt]

@@timsway I’m really excited to see how you profiled the neck in VCarve too

[@timsway]

@@ACNailedIt It's so simple once you see it. It's not 100% there but you'll see, in the next video, it came out closer to "done" than I expected!

[@TotalBoat]

Very cool!! They're looking great

[@stephenhookings1985]

Last silly point by me. Could you make a frame within a frame. Mount the blanks in that. There is a horizontal pivot. You put the frame into 4 common bolts. You set the machine to carve one face. When complete, rotate the front to back - it should be centred if you stared along the pivot line. Of course you would have to work out whether to flip the backside carve. But hopefully front and back will be registered (if the bolts are located and centre was on centre line).

[@timsway]

well, you could make like a spit for it to rotate on, there are cnc lathes. Also, when doing large production runs, you can make specific jigs for the job that fill the cnc bed, eliminating some of the extra work mounting and flipping. However I rarely make a bunch of the same thing at the same time so I haven't developed this type of system myself.

[@stephenhookings1985]

The brush on the CNC - it kind of looks like one of the guinea pigs is carving the guitar :-) Forget tanks or camper vans. Equip the piggies with mini wood carving tools. Lay their food out in guitar shapes ... they will do the work. Or chew out the cavities if they are anything like ours or maybe you need beavers for that part).

[@timsway]

yea, that seems more efficient...

[@TimothyYshurakhuno]

Cool stuff😎

[@jamesh5460]

This is great!!

[@Sun-ut9gr]

Are you using regular linseed or boiled linseed oil?

[@timsway]

boiled.

[@toblexson5020]

The moulding toolpath trick is so useful! I was certain there was a way to do it, I just hadn't gotten around to trying. I wonder if there's a way to get a conical (compound) radius? That might just have to wait until I can afford Aspire.

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Like deployed 👍

[@grayjack5021]

Bring Back the Bubba Bass!

[@vincentmorelli1013]

Could never understand the pushback against CNC technology. From a manufacturing standpoint it just makes sense to have. Now if you're just a hobbyist that's another story.

[@stephenhookings1985]

I guess it is a bit like scene in iRobot. Where Spooner pitches commercial idea to USRobitics head haunch :-) My day job is automation / security - repeatability at speed and scale. Now if Tim would make a CNC out of panel doors ...

[@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1]

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[@discodan2265]

All the purists out there don't understand or are too scared, lazy to implement newer techniques. Yes skill comes into it but so does experience, innovation & evolution. A simple tool will get the job done in skilled hands but an even better tool will unleash potential. The more tools at tour disposal the more methods of expression manifest. ❤

[@stephenhookings1985]

Like standardisation/automation of Winchester rifle manufacturing.

[@discodan2265]

@@stephenhookings1985 what are you implying there? If you are hinting to a deficit in quality well the company and or its qc department are to blame for that. A product is only as good as the manufacturer allows it to be....

[@timsway]

Not to speak for someone else, but I think he's implying how the Winchester "tamed the west" or whatever they say because of early innovations in production escalation that put the competition to shame?