NGD Project Guitar

[magillver]

Old Squier that a buddy gave me, random Chinese neck, 3D printed pickguard, Lace Sensors (blue, silver, red), 10-way Freeway switch, G&L-style PTB tone circuitry...sounds good, still need to mess with the setup a bit more (may be time to invest in real proper nut files...), still deciding on knobs...

 

[Chistopher]

Hell yeah

What direction are you looking to take it? That's a pretty crazy setup it's got going on

If you don't end up liking the Sensors, I'll buy 'em off you.

 

[magillver]

I actually got the Sensors fairly cheaply on Reverb, around $150 for the set, from a shop called 'Gear Nerd Girl' (.https://reverb.com/shop/nicoles-leftovers?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=shop&utm_content=2862617). As far as where I'm going with it, I'm not entirely sure. I'll noodle with it as-is for a bit and see where it takes me...

 

[Mincer]

I really like the idea of a 3D printed pickguard.

 

[jeremy]

id suggest, like, strat knobs?

 

[magillver]

My brother has a seriously full shop (retired quite well, the bastard) and printed me a white one and a red one as an experiment. The truly sad thing is that he's completely non-musical, and doesn't believe that he could build guitars! This was a huge step forward for him, next I'm trying to get him to CNC bodies, not a terribly different process than setting up the 3D printer. As for the knobs, since I kind of cobbled this together from available parts, I have mixed pots on this one, both course and fine splines, so I'm going to have to get a bit creative on that front (or just get matching pots).

 

[ehdwuld]

If you are successful
I would really like a pine strat body with a swimming pool route

Keep that in the back of your mind

 

[Chistopher]

This was a huge step forward for him, next I'm trying to get him to CNC bodies, not a terribly different process than setting up the 3D printer.

I looked into that myself. It's actually quite a big step if you know nothing about machining, but not an insurmountable obstacle by any stretch.

 

[magillver]

And you are correct, I know next to nothing about machining. To my mind, the modeling programs must be fairly similar, with the main difference being that one is additive and the other is...subtractive?...I don't know, but it *seems* that both processes are creating a 3D model. To be fair, though, my brother knows quite a bit about those processes, in his past life he was a mechanical engineer...fairly bright lad...

 

[Chistopher]

And you are correct, I know next to nothing about machining. To my mind, the modeling programs must be fairly similar, with the main difference being that one is additive and the other is...subtractive?...I don't know, but it *seems* that both processes are creating a 3D model. To be fair, though, my brother knows quite a bit about those processes, in his past life he was a mechanical engineer...fairly bright lad...

The big difference is a 3d printer only does one thing - print a filament. A CNC machine needs to know the size and location of the thing its cutting, it needs to know what bits it is using to cut, it needs to know what techniques it's going to use for pathing those bits, it needs to know the speed for those bits, it needs to know what order to use each individual bit, and a lot more things.

Like I said though, it's not hard to learn, just a lot to learn.