Tags > 3d Printing

Älgen progress update

23 Nov 2021 - 3d printing, älgen, fusion 360, jigs

Progress for my new guitar design: testing how to mount 3D prints on wood, and making a start on shaping the walnut that I'll use for the main body.

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Updates on my Älgen guitar design

4 Oct 2021 - 3d printing, älgen, dying, jigs, nylon, templates

Updates on my Älgen guitar design: getting some actual wood, experiments in dying 3D prints, and designing some hopefully correctly complicated jigs.

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Pushing forward the design of the new guitar

2 Sep 2021 - 3d printing, älgen, dying, fusion 360

Pushing forward with the new guitar design: sweating the details of how to put it together, and getting help from the maker community with how to dye 3D printed parts.

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Mapping out a new path to getting back into the workshop

3 Jun 2021 - 3D-printing, concepts, design

A look at how to define what it is I do as a luthier as a way to motivate me to pickup my tools again.

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A crude render of a blocky guitar design. There's a core bit of wood that runs the length of the guitar from where the headstock would be to the tail, with a fretboard glued on, and the sides of the body are a plastic lattice-work.





A week in the shop

7 May 2019 - 3D printing, fettling, fuzz, maintenance, pedals, the corvette, workshop

A mixed week as I make some dust in someone else's workshop, fettle an old handplane back to perfect condition, 3D-print a new tool, share some knowledge, and ship out a set of fuzz pedals into the world.

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A row of four guitar effects pedals sits on the workbench. Each one has a laser-etched wooden face with a beard logo, each pedal having the beard stained a different colour.

A week barely in the shop

15 Oct 2018 - 3D-printing, CNC-router

I help a local luthier out with some CNC work, and I make some tiny 3D-printed guitars to let me test new designs.

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The author's hand, holding a stack of tiny 3D-printed guitar bodies, one of which has a neck also.