[marcerasmus]

this is the strat body i have modelled to use to machine myself a strat. i have made it as accurate as i can using the dims and specs i have available-anyone may use this model as they wish. please post some pics of anything you end up machining, it would be great to see what you guys do! i will post some pics as soon as i get a gap to machine the body. i will probably do an mdf body first, just to make sure the model "holds" well, if you know what i mean.
the neck will be following shortly.

[justin22885]

ive been trying to make a neck thru strat.. but havent had much luck properly modeling the heel

[Jer7440]

Here is a pic of a prs that I cut from that surface file...this is straight off the machine, no sanding. I don't have any of the elevation differences you are seeing in your simulation. Must be some kind of translation error?

[mitchjr]

Here are a few pics of the strat that i just cut out today. It is cut out of trupan because it is a demo, but it looks like a winner. I do have the belly and arm cut ready to mill, but I did not have enough Z travel to get my safe z to work. I will try to cut another one this week on my mill at home to get her complete. I drew this up from a variety of files and the blueprints i posted. I did buy 2 bodies from Warmouth and as you can see they line up real nice. I am going to throw the HSH route into my Ibanez body I started a while back. I will try to get one cut as well to post. The one thing that I did discover is that the 2 bodies that were purchased from Warmouth do not line up with each other. So we may be spliting hairs to get an exact body profile. Threw in a pic of the belly cut that I generated in ArtCam.

[justin22885]

mitchjr.. if you made the strat body with those blueprints you have, go with those.. those are factory dimensions..

also. was that control cavity your own representation or did you get a template for it?

and if you want.. i have jem777 blueprints, and an already made 3D model of it if youre into ibanez' and want it

[mitchjr]

I would love to the blueprints. I am not a fan of it myself, but I got a good friend who has several. He has been on me to finish up one for him.

Thanks.

Did you want to post it here or do you need an email.

[justin22885]

i believe youre the one that sent my the strat blueprints..

and the flying V ive been working on.. have the pickups, bridge, neck pocket, and string through locations made so far.. actually i just need to know the angle between the inside and outside of a horn to be 100% sure its spot on and i can finish up the flying V

[mitchjr]

That is me......just send it to my email.

[justin22885]

there.. thats everything i have on the ibanez jem design

still looking for assistance getting the proper carved top on a les paul, or the dimensions of the king v

[mitchjr]

i cant read any of the dimensions. Did you shrink it down to be able to post it? It looks like a winner. Do you have a clear copy?

[mitchjr]

someone asked if i had a template for the back chamber of the strat. I did design that myself. I scanned the bottom of the strat body I bought and brought that photo into artcam. I traced the pic with the vectors and resized to the original. It was pretty simple and only took about 10 min.

[justin22885]

that photo is maybe 1/8 the normal size.. they resized it on me.. so i had to zip the photo so itll be an attachment

[justin22885]

hah.. funny story.. i posted a thread on the les paul forum (mylespaul.com) asking if anyone was willing to help me on a project and ive received many angry letters and a couple death threats by people who make money selling knock-off les paul parts

[CarveOne]

hah.. funny story.. i posted a thread on the les paul forum (mylespaul.com) asking if anyone was willing to help me on a project and ive received many angry letters and a couple death threats by people who make money selling knock-off les paul parts

You're only going where they have already gone. I can't imagine why they might think that no one else should want to build their own guitar when they also have an interest in cnc router machines.

CarveOne

[justin22885]

yeah.. but these idiots dont want others to build their own, they want others to pay gibson prices for their copies

[justin22885]

did those models and blueprints work well enough mitchjr?

[mitchjr]

They are very good. The bodies have different top cuts which I got from the 2 bodies I purchased from warmouth. Took a little work, but it all paid off. I would go with the blueprints.

[justin22885]

yeah.. i would trust the blueprints over warmoth for the most part.. anyway, im still trying to decide the body style im going to use on a custom im working on..

i know the neck will be modeled after a jackson soloist, i found the bridge i plan to use (low profile hardtail bridge, non trem, not a tune o matic) so i can use a flat neck angle for better comfort.. probably hum/single/single pickup configuration for added versatility... might wire the two single coils in the neck and middle position to work together like an extended humbucker when a toggle is thrown one way, seperate single coils the other way...

scale length will probably be 25.5".. and itll be of neck through construction.. so all i need to work out is the actual body shape i want to use, maybe features of that body to make it a little different, and wood

[mitchjr]

Let me know if you want me to sent you the .dxf file of the body and the Hum. Hell I can just send the whole damn thing and you can delete what you want.

[justin22885]

if you have a dxf of a king v.. thats what id like most, i already have a complete strat body im lofting a neck for, trying to get it to blend well into the heel.. might need to convert my sldprt to a dwg and loft it with autocad