Guitar Art

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PortlandGuitar
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Guitar Art

Post by PortlandGuitar »

Hello,

I use CNC and aspire to make rosettes and marquetry for my guitars. Here's the type of work that's done.
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The inner piece is a wood medallion that's glued into the sound hole. a simple profile path with a 60 degree V-bit. The outer piece is routed with a pocket path then filled in with a colored rock and glue.

Here is another of similar style:
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Visit our website to see some guitars: Portland Guitar

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Post by Rcnewcomb »

Nice work! Thanks for posting.

You might be interested in the Fret Board Maker gadget that handles radiusing and muti-scale fan-fret designs. It was written for V9.5 but it seems to work for V10.5 as well.
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very interesting I'll check it out. How do I download and a gadget and install it into aspire? I can't seem to find where to download it. I've never used gadgets before so I need some help.

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I like to use Aspire and Celtic knot designs to carve openings in salad bowl guitar tops. Take a look at this example: viewtopic.php?p=226886#p226886

If you don't want to reduce the sound hole area then enlarge the design somewhat and make the knots a bit thinner in width so the holes are larger. I have used my own creations of 3d carved chair cane weave models as sound holes also. Fun stuff to play with.

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Documentation for the Fretboard Maker Overview
Fretboard Maker Overview.zip
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Here is the gadget. You can either
unzip to gadget folder
or
Rename the .zip extension to .vgadget, then inside Aspire or Vcarve use the menu to select Gadgets/Install New Gadget...
Fret_Board_Maker-v1.00.zip
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