Success! Cuts came out pretty good. Was worried about a lot of things. The workholding being secure enough and also the datum points and straightness of body. Rotating the cuts by just .1 degrees has a major impact on the cut. Kind of like when using a shim, the smallest angle shim will have a massive change to the neck angle.

The cut come out really good, I was able to angle the cut similar to the way Kurt did. This would have been tedious with a chisel crossgrain. I did my version 1 Kurt mustang like this it took me a few hours and the results were not as smooth as this one. But the drawback being the programming and attention to detail took a longtime in illustrator. The programming and setup for something like this takes the longest time. But another positive is I can transfer the programming I did to my version 3 on the Squier Mustang with little revision. Pretty proud of the programming I did. Learning more about chipload, and the speeds and feeds I used for the Spektra were definitely thought out ahead of time. Before, I would set to auto speeds and some cuts were super dusty, which not the way you want to work because it will wear out the endmills way quicker and for health reasons.

My downcut endmill only had a .75 max depth of cut. Was going to be too shallow to fit the toggle switch. Had to use the Spektra 46577-k so that it would cut that deep. Wasn’t sure if the top cut was going to be clean, not that it mattered since it will be covered by new control plate. I also ran a super low rpm and adjusted for chipload. The bit handled it perfectly, no burning at all and the top had no chips. Man those Spektra endmills bit are fire. I did this to compensate for the rigidity issues I may encounter with the workholding not being screwed down. I felt my makeshift workholding wasn’t the strongest but the lower feedrate really made the cut smooth, secure and less janky.

I think I used this chipload calculator. Didn’t use the recommended super high spektra feedrates but compensated by lowering the rpm.
http://www.manufacturinget.org/home/calculator-chip-load/

The pickup pocket was cut with a
#251 Downcut .25″ Carbide3d endmill



The control cavity was cut with a 46577-k upcut .25″ bit with a max depth of cut of 1.5″,
46577-k upcut .25″ Amana Spektra endmill