X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=music%2Fguitars%2Fbdale-1%2Findex.mdwn;h=757f6d03363a03e62bb6263ed4bb3b26b3e9e908;hb=ef7ef5935a78fd70075bd104de2f951ca8d6e89b;hp=fb1f4951a158ef6c6f12c8bb74d01e3739ee5ecc;hpb=b116087c2380f81401464cf1101f898aa3d3b5f1;p=web%2Fgag.com diff --git a/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn b/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn index fb1f495..757f6d0 100644 --- a/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn +++ b/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn @@ -90,13 +90,22 @@ Erasmus is available on [GrabCAD](https://grabcad.com/library/62-strat-asm) and it appears at least one person has actually built a guitar using these files. -To build the guitar body I want, the existing body design file needs to be +To build the guitar body I want, the existing body design file was modified to eliminate the tremolo cut-out and rear cavity, to add screw holes for the hard-tail bridge, and to shift the electronics cavity from being front-open to being rear-accessible with the front just having 3 holes for the volume and tone control shafts and the slot and mounting screw holes needed for the pickup selector switch. +The first attempt to cut the body on our CNC router failed, because a large +delivery of building materials happened in the middle of the roughing pass, +and I naively thought the router would be ok cutting for a while without +me. Apparently, swarf jammed the bit up enough to cause the machine to lose +steps and shut itself down. Unfortunately, when I attempted to restart the +cut, something went horribly wrong and the roughing cutter put a deep gouge +through much of the body of the guitar. I decided to call this attempt a +bust, and look for more wood to start over with. + ## Wiring ## A standard strat has a volume control, 2 tone controls, and a 5-way pickup @@ -121,4 +130,14 @@ volume on the guitar. It consists of an additional 560pF capacitor and 300k resistor in parallel between the hot and wiper terminals on the volume control. This may or may not seem necessary once we have the guitar together. +## Artifacts ## + +The following files are licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 +International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): + +* [FreeCAD](http://www.freecadweb.org/) design file for + [guitar body](guitarbody.fcstd) +* [STL output](guitarbody.stl) from FreeCAD for guitar body + + More to come!