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These were carved for 3 special young lady’s ( my niece’s ) using a Millright Carve King, and V carve software.

Neat!

V Carve is a nice program (I guess a niece program in your case--sorry, couldn't help myself...). You did a fine job with it on the headstocks!

Dave

Cool!

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Those are perfect for your young ladies!

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"Music is what feelings sound like"

Now that's a first for me. Not sure how I feel about it.

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Hutch

Get the heck off the couch and go build a guitar!!!!

Looks great! A really lovely idea.
So this looks like a very special triple necked guitar - they are going to have fun playing together.

Very nice!
Will you leave them as is, or fill in the leaves and flowers with color?

That looks awesome! What is V-Carve?

No it’s not a triple neck guitar. These are individual necks, not bolted to the bodies yet.

How will they be finished?

Ed M

They look great, love how the flowers are unique for each.

Did you carve just the headplate and then attach to the neck? It sort of looks like the tuner holes and bushing holes were also done on the CNC? Or maybe you used the fancy bushing framers from SM after the headplate was on?

John, V-Carve is design and control software for CNC. I only know this because I’ve recently started working with it.

Brad


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Carved the plate oversized 1/8 all around, then glued to the headstock and trimmed. Headstock was already profiled with holes drilled. Tuner holes, and washer recesses on plate were cut on cnc at the same time as carving. Used 10 mm bolts to line up plate to the headstock.

Are automated machine carving and automated machine routing the same thing?

I guess sort of. A router or spindle head is used with a CNC machine to hold router bits to do the work. In V carving a v bit, usually 90, 45, or 22.5 degrees is used depending on detail needed etc. I used all three sizes of bits to carve these. When v carving the router moves in all 3 axis. X, Y, and Z. Or in other words left to right, forward to back and up and down. The Z axis ( up and down) is what basically separates v carving from any other. As the carved portion requires a narrower cut the head moves up, wider it moves down. This is all controlled using G code co ordinates created by whatever software you wanna use. I use Vectric v carve software. If you just want to just cut profile shapes it will do that also.