New Operating System.
Hi everyone - breaking in a new laptop today and trying a brand new operating system based on Ubuntu. I’m enjoying it so far. Pop OS
This is a picture of my dog.
I get to put what I want on my site so all you’ll see here is a picture of my dog. No ads. Nothing for you to click on. Just my dog.
Fret Slot Toolpaths in Fusion 360
One of the YouTube subscribers asked for this extra video on how to set up a toolpath to cut fret slots. So here it is!
How to Make an Electric Guitar using Fusion 360 and CNC - Step 9
Here we are at the end! In this final step we talk about how to generate tool paths that will be flip-milled on the CNC. When you’re done you’ll have a whole...
How to Make an Electric Guitar using Fusion 360 and CNC - Step 8
Finally we get to the tough part - transitioning from the neck to the headstock. I’ve struggled a lot with this in the past, mainly because I wasn’t paying c...
How to Make an Electric Guitar using Fusion 360 and CNC - Step 7
This is pretty tricky! Lofting between the neck and the heel. This transition is handled wonderfully by Brad Anderson Jr., another Decatur Maker, to whom I l...
How to Make an Electric Guitar using Fusion 360 and CNC - Step 6
Hi all! Sorry to have taken a long break, but work has been pretty busy! Here’s the next video in the series as we get close to wrapping things up. In this v...
How to Make an Electric Guitar using Fusion 360 and CNC - Step 5
Here we finally leave our guitar body behind and start tackling the neck. This first part covers the fretboard. The thing of interest to non-luthiers here is...
How to Make an Electric Guitar using Fusion 360 and CNC - Step 4
In step 4 of this series we take a quick look at how to post process toolpaths in Fusion 360 to generate gcode that the Decatur Makers CNC milling machine ca...
How to Make an Electric Guitar using Fusion 360 and CNC - Step 3
Greetings all. Step 3 is pretty long, I’m not going to lie to you. But it’s useful if you are interested in actually carving out the guitar (or whatever) you...
How to Make an Electric Guitar using Fusion 360 and CNC - Step 2.0
Well hi again! Step 2 was up on YouTube a while ago, and I’ll link to it here. So here, we’re cleaning up a sketch to get ready for our first extrude - takin...
How to Make an Electric Guitar using Fusion 360 and CNC - Step 1
So here’s the next step for making Electric Guitars on Decatur Makers’ CNC milling machine. In this video, I’ll cover how to import svg guitar plans, proper ...
How to Make an Electric Guitar using Fusion 360 and CNC - Step 0
I finally started documenting my process for designing electric guitars in Fusion 360, and building them on [Decatur Makers] (https://decaturmakers.com) CNC ...
CNC Electric Guitars (and basses!)
I’ve spent the better part of the past year learning how to design and make electric guitars and basses using Autodesk’s Fusion 360 and the CNC milling machi...
Kevin!
Later this year (2018) I’ll be posting a tutorial on how to make an electric guitar using Fusion 360 and a CNC milling machine. The first step in all of this...
Welcome!
Hi. This page is an experiment in getting away from social media sites and managing my own content. Until I learn more about Jekyll and GitHub, this site is ...
The Deacy
I originally published this video over at drchrisgoode, but I wanted makers to see it here. This is a replica of the amplifier that John Deacon made and Bria...
Deacy Preview
My buddy Bill Sandidge and others at Decatur Makers helped me take an e-bay find and convert it into a replica of Queen’s celebrated studio amp, nicknamed “T...
Replace Nady DI Transformer
A lot of the videos I’m linking to from this site were originally published on my other YouTube channel, under drchrisgoode. There are a lot of academic vide...
RA-23 Microphone Build
Here’s an oldie but a goode (heh, it’s actually pronounced Good). I built a microphone from Microphone-parts.com and made a video of the build. I still use t...