Hello JM…for making pickup bobbins, I ran the machine 30ipm with .03 doc with a .125 two flute up-cut bit. For fingerboards it varies…if I use a .25 ball nose for radius cut, I run at about 80ipm, don’t know what the doc is…for fret slots I run at 15ipm with a .01 doc with a .023 bit…for outer contour…80ipm, .02 doc with .125 bit…I hope this helps.
Thanks! I will give these settings a try.
Machined up a bridge and control plate to send to my buddy over in Okinawa…I wound the bridge to a stout 11k and the neck pickup to 7.5k…I think he will get some grind with this setup. The bridge and control plate were machined from 6061 Aluminum…
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Haven’t done purple in a while or a bigsby…figured it was time…I can’t get enough of Fusion360 and the XCarve…everyday is an adventure!
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Figured I’d share a video of one of the funnest guitars I built this year…neck/fingerboard, body, bridge, control plate, pick guard were all machined with XCarve…I used Fusion360 for CAD and CAM.
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Axe sounds great, I think I will go blow the dust off my amp and play mine for a bit! Thanks for sharing!
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I would love to see a start to finish build video or tutorial, you have a special talent 
Nice guitars and nice playing!
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Haven’t posted in a while sometimes get a little lost in the shop…here is an amp cabinet for a 5e3 Tweed Deluxe amp I am building. I used 3/4" pine…used the XCarve to cut the finger-joints…fist time I used “dog bones”…the finger-joints were just right! I used burlap from Wal-Mart for the grill cloth. Can’t wait to fire this thing up…
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Thanks Casey!
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Thank you Stan!
