Cnc for pickguards

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simso
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Cnc for pickguards

Post by simso » Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:51 pm

Gotta love cnc, scan the old one in and pop out the new one. Exactly to size and scale, mounting holes perfect....Lot easier than the old way of transferring to a template board and then transferring back with a router.

Quick job this morning, heres a pic of a flying vee pickguard with a new layout to suit, this one is being retrofitted with a modern active pickup system.

It drop fits exactly into the old location.

Gotta love modern technology, just getting your head around programming but is an entirley different story

Its now the programming that takes the time, an hr to scan and draw up, and then cnc time to machine.

If you were doing these in the hundreds this would be fantastic and very economical, but one ofs its great and neat but still similiar time constraints as doing it by hand
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