Tags > Design
A Week in the Shop
5 Aug 2023 - bass, design, fretwork, Fusion 360, grain filler, hästen, verkstaden
This week I had both the highs and lows as my neck building exceeds my expectations before I'm knocked down a peg or two on the next stage. I also prep two guitar bodies ready for the stray-booth, and I do some CAD work on bass guitar work.
![Two guitar bodies sit on the workbench, ready to go to the spray booth for painting. Both have a stick screwed into the neck pocket to be held in the clamp during spraying, and one has a cardboard mask on one side as only the rear will be painted.](/blog/2023/08/06/a-week-in-the-shop/IMG_4880_hucff9b85e93a9cfa815454c7d648eddbb_2480824_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Week in the Shop
26 Mar 2023 - älgen, design, ESP32, pickups, verkstaden
Fixing up the details on my älgen guitar build, remodeling an in-progress older build to have a fresh new look, and I curse generally about letting electronics back into my life.
![The bottom end of the wooden core of älgen has a copper-tape covered cavity with all the wiring in. To close this off, there is a laser-cut cover made from frosted-translucent orange acrylic. The cover has my initials, MWD, etched into it, along with 'Älgen Prototype 1'](/blog/2023/03/26/a-week-in-the-shop/DSCF4840_hu46c4d39af0ea1f9c304428a041e959d2_3452645_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Week in the Shop
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.
![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.](/blog/2021/6/3/the-road-to-getting-back-into-the-workshop/_huc271f6f45606083403e5f01cc67b90a1_846206_fa80cd11ef73d877517ba93a7923fa43.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)