Acoustic Guitar Construction

That is one beautiful guitar!

“G” your grandson must love playing it. Get it? The chord he’s playing.

Has anyone put a spiral blade on a good scroll saw and tried cutting perloid shell material? I’ve decided not to go the CNC route but I would like an easier way to cut my logo out of shell. I’ve always used a jeweler’s saw but it does seem like I could do it a liitle easier with a scroll saw.

It sold already…Rats!

Never considered that I might have to step up to 240 volts to power it. The Ginmitsu’s vary in price from $200 and up. I guess you get what you pay for? I found a Ginmitsu PROVerXL 4030 used in good condition for $600 Canadian which includes extra bits and a Makita router. Take $120 off if you don’t...

First pic is yesterdays frustration with routering too much along one edge (I made sure I was not tempted to use it by going postal on it). Second pic is my logo and 3rd and 4th are finished ones on a couple completed guitars.

I looked for this topic on AGCF but found no one asking about CNC machines so here goes….I absolutely love all parts of building guitars EXCEPT cutting my logo out of perloid shell and routering out the channel in the headstock piece. I think a CNC machine is something I want to investigate. Unfortu...

I also was thinking TB3, but if CA works for you then that’s what I’ll use.
Thanks.
Andris.