Hi everyone,
My brain has gone a little mushy thinking about the CNC pretty much 24/7. I was heading towards burnout. Spending so much time in the design phase was never my intention, this project started out with a purchased, proven fit for purpose design, which I wanted to make a few minor adjustments to suit the materials I already had available. It’s so easy to get carried away with tweaking this and adjusting that, before you know it you are designing a whole new machine practically from the ground up.
I would really like to place an order for the parts coming from China with Christmas just around the corner but I t’s probably already too late to expect any parts to be delivered before the new year. However, the design is not quite ready to order any parts yet until I sort out how to drive the screws (directly or with belts), so it was time for a little break to give my brain cells a rest and then return to the CNC with a fresh mind.
To help keep me motivated, I have started modelling the first guitar project for Carlos once it is built. Still needs a lot of work like figuring out how to create complex curves where the neck meets the body. I’m still relatively new to Fusion and I don’t yet know how to do that. It might also be easier to rough out the shape with simpler geometry and then carve and sand the final shape by hand, but addressing those details is still a long way away.
I’ve attached some rendered images of the guitar as it is so far if anyone is interested. I got distracted by the shiny materials in the fusion library and made the last two models from shiny metal. One is bronze with a maple fretboard and the other is platinum with carbon fibre fretboard, just because they were shiny.
I’ll get back to Carlos tomorrow.
Have a great day/ night everyone.
Jayne