CNC fretboard radius file?

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Jim
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CNC fretboard radius file?

Post by Jim » Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:42 pm

Hi Everybody,

Having a crack at building my first pair of guitars at the moment, 000 size and I'm looking at doing the fretboard radius. The school I work at (I'm a teacher) has a cnc machine. They use v carve as software for it. Unfortunately I don't have the software on my computer for it, but the design tech teachers do. They told me if I had a crv file it would be easy enough to do. Does anyone know where I could get/buy a file to create a 16" radius on a fretboard from?
Or is it better to do it by hand with a radius block?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers

Jim

simso
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Re: CNC fretboard radius file?

Post by simso » Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:59 pm

Crv file is specific to Vectric Software.

You can use the free software they supply, to draw up and design your file, you just cannot output the toolpaths to a cnc router, but, you can take that file you have drafted and give it to those that have the licensed version to cut the product.

http://www.vectric.com/

I make mine from jarrah
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