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A Week Out the Shop
26 Feb 2023 - archtop, bhm, cad, delfinen, fusion 360, rendering, templates, verkstaden
A week spent paying off some CAD debt to fuel the workshop time, and a look at another builder of some amazing archtop guitars.
![A 3D render of my älgen guitar design, which has a central wooden core that starts as the neck and continues the full length of the body, and then has a 3D printed latice either side where the guitar body would usually be.](/blog/2023/02/26/a-week-out-the-shop/%C3%A4lgen_hu2afce03468a7c053ab4c37b1753c5583_6496152_150x150_fit_box_3.png)
A week out the shop
23 Feb 2020 - ableton live, CAD, design
A week spent mostly on CAD work as I try to come up with a new guitar design that is my own.
![The CAD model of a guitar. It is a solid body electric guitar design, with an arched top, and two pointy curved upper horns to provide access to the higher frets. There is a small pickguard in the middle that houses two P90 pickups, and there are three control knobs.](/blog/2020/2/23/a-week-out-the-shop/kirk635_hu78006376b5304dced2fabb89dca03e8e_176296_150x150_fit_box.png)
An xmas weeknotes
31 Dec 2018 - cad, CNC-routing, necks, scarf joint
A week mostly out the workshop, but I spend some time looking at guitar neck designs and trying to figure out how they might be made.
![A CAD model of a guitar neck, but rather than round inlay dots it has little video game style arrows.](/blog/2018/12/31/an-xmas-weeknotes/Screenshot_2018-12-31_at_14.05.46_hu72a7fd4205d0817eb747b5d54c59eb7c_934450_150x150_fit_box_3.png)
A week in Fusion
Without access to a CNC router to make progress, I step away from the workshop for a week to plan out both alternative ways of building, and alternative guitar designs.
![A screnshot of a CAD tool showing a design for a solid bodied electric guitar.](/blog/2018/5/21/a-week-in-fusion/Screen_Shot_2018-05-19_at_17.13.44_hucaf5a14072f3d0861cec8e444613a74b_2577303_150x150_fit_box_3.png)
A week in the shop
Fretboard design generator
1 Dec 2017 - cad, cnc routing, fretboard, javascript, laser cutting, maker, open source
A look at a tool I've made and open sourced to help you design and make fretboards for your guitars.
![A screenshot of a fretboard editor in a browser. Shows a diagram of a fretboard, and controls that let you set things like scale-length, how many frets, inlays etc.](/blog/2017/12/1/fretboard-design-generator/template_generator_huf5d119cec0406a9fba76b826ec0c19fe_189406_150x150_fit_box_3.png)