Created a 16.66″ radius. I tried the 7.25″ radius but my fretboard was way too thin. Plus bending is easier lower action. Classical guitar are totally flat. 12 might’ve worked fine but they are so common. higher radius more stability also. .1875 Thickness of fretboard.
Creating the fretboard radius wasn’t too hard, most people just project onto an extrude, issue is it doesn’t get surfaced. Good if you quickly want to make toolpaths but not for full renders.
Rhino, created solid fretlite fretboard, created circles radius snapped to back of guitar, then cap planar extrude. Boolean split. Extruded fretboard outline upwards to split the fretboard and then split the extrude again. Maple inlays used the osnap “between” button again to line things up, less human error.
Tomorrow, Figure out neck pocket height, model a guitar nut. Figure out if I can add cnc an angled neck pocket. Not sure If I can do this easily on CNC, don’t have 4 axis cutter unfortunately, think Schecter does it so you don’t need shim. Worried about neck volute, we’ll see how stable it is. Definitely a concern. Also may have to tweak spring spacing at nut. Maybe model some strings.
