Strangely designing

Happyorange27 · April 25, 2011, 12:57:18 PM

Look what I started to model up.

Someday I'll have the exact guitar per my specs 100%.

Poster · April 25, 2011, 03:04:56 PM

You should do a through neck and add a female contour to the top

Happyorange27 · April 25, 2011, 03:08:56 PM

Thanks. I'll admit I don't know that much about joining and connecting necks to bodies. I was thinking about designing my own body and bolting it to a warmoth neck to start with. But if it's feasible to do something more substatial and not screw up all the critical geometry, I'm all ears.

Send me a pic of what you are talking about if you can find some. Thanks,

Happyorange27 · April 25, 2011, 03:16:36 PM

Ok I found some through necks. So this wouldn't be full true hollow body...i'm ok with that because i can gain sustain right and overall strength?

Poster · April 25, 2011, 05:17:48 PM

correct, you could even sandwich a trio of woods straight down the middle, to the end of the headstock. itll be much more difficult to build, honestly, your best bet is utilize a luthier. for a bolt, youd need to have the neck go much further into the body, maybe even into the neck hum position. Otherwise, it just wont be stable, or durable.

Poster · April 25, 2011, 05:23:12 PM

also dont go for the les paul type tone pros bridge, they are very sloppy. checkout some of the gotoh stuff that goes flat on that body, the wooden tailpieces are very over rated.

Shaggy Dog · May 01, 2011, 10:15:55 PM

Quote from: Happyorange27 on April 25, 2011, 12:57:18 PM
Look what I started to model up.

How did you do that?

Happyorange27 · May 02, 2011, 06:28:31 AM

Shaggy, I drew this using Autodesk Inventor, a 3d CAD program. I design machines as an engineer. There are many cool things I plan to do. I'm going to run an FEA, finite element analysis to determine stress points and then refine and repeat until it's perfect. Also I'll build a rapid prototype using a 3D printer. I can then check the fit and feel, drop in some pups for a quick check, see how well it feels under my arm, etc.
Then I can export the data to a skilled wood shop with a CNC router. The best part is it will be within thousandths of an inch Everywhere! No human interaction during routing.