Full Version: Newb: help with Arm and belly contours for solid body guitars

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Hi Neil,
I reworked the areas shown in the photo.
I moved your arm cut over slightly as the thickness from front to back was to thin for a 0.25 fillet top and 0.625 fillet back.
Also the neck cut out curve had a sharp corner where it should have blended and gave a strange result when Boolean difference was applied.
This was the order I filleted.
1) Fillet back 0.625 but not the top edge.
2) Fillet top 0.25 again not top edge.
3) Boolean difference neck cut out.
4) Fillet top edge 0.2
Attached is the result.
Hope this helps
Barry

Attachments:
rework .625rad.zip

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Screenshot (123).png 

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Thanks Barry!

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Where am I going wrong on this - can't fillet any more than .125" - what is the trick? I'd like to do between .25" and .375"

Thanks for the help!

Attachments:
GHshorterbodyB.rar

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Hi Neil, what edges are you trying to fillet ?

- Michael

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Hi Neil,
your model will fillet at .25/.30 if you do the fillets before you Boolean the neck pocket.
The neck pocket as it is causes a slight sliver so by slightly moving or adjusting width will improve it.
Barry

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Screenshot (339).png 

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Why can't I do that? Hmm. Well you always save the day Barry - thanks! Can you help with this body as well? I'm having the same problem with it. I can' get the fillet anymore than .1" before or after the pockets and contours.

Attachments:
Greghowlongerbodywithneck.rar

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Hi Neil,
Just tried your last post and it fillets 0.2 on the top any bigger and it runs into a pocket.
Did exactly the same as my previous post separated the solid, untrimmed the top and side to remove neck pocket.
Re trimmed side with belly cut out and joined to form a solid, applied fillets top and bottom and to finish Boolean the neck pocket.
Hope this helps.
Barry
Ps: your body profile right side neck curve isn't smooth?

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Thanks Barry! - hmm that must be a previous version thought I smoothed that curve out - thanks for pointing it out and for the help - much appreciated! Will be making that arch top very soon - thank you again for your help with that.

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Here is the last body Barry helped me with after milling . . . vert happy with the contours. Hard to see the arm contour in this shot but it's perfect. I too am looking forward to version 4 with dimensioning.

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Amazing JOB!!!

Congrats!! Amazing job.

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I think you are in now....... Nice job!

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Thanks for the kind words - much appreciated!

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Finished guitar - teak oil finish - neck and body done in MOI3D

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GHfinished3.JPG 

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beautiful. congrats. glad to see you have got the hang of moi

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Nice job. I have several acoustic guitars but never did buy an electric. How much do those sell for?

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The prices differ with features - this one is going for 1,200.00 - features: rock maple neck with dual action truss rod, 24 fret 16" radius birch fingerboard, select alder body, hand wound Tone Garden neck and middle pickups with Kent Armstrong hand wound bridge pickup, Hipshot products contour tremolo, Hipshot locking tuning keys, master volume and tone. push/pull volume expander switch (allowing neck and bridge and all three pickups options), tone pot push/pull coil splitter switch for bridge pickup. Five position pickup selector. Teak oil finish. Dunlop 6100 frets to 12th fret and then 6105 13-24.

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Amazing job!!!

Amazing :)

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Hi Neil, it turned out awesome thanks for sharing the photos with us!

- Michael

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Excellent job! I have looked at all photos in thread again and it can be nicely seen two things, firstly product evolution and secondly advanced and friendly forum community.

Thanks.
Mik

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Thanks for the kind words - many thanks to the patient and helpful forum members who helped me learn to model these guitars entirely in MOI3D. Barry is trying to teach me how to do an arch top but I'm still not getting the hang of it . . . here are a few more guitars (necks and bodies) modeled in MoI - the program along with my CNC machine have become a life savers as they help save time and money in they shop - they also do things way better than I could by hand. Turning out a lot more guitars which was a problem before.

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Ione 104.jpg  Ione101.jpg  Ione103.jpg  IOne104b.jpg  Stardustguitars99.jpg 

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