Mehr is starting to take shape! today we are making an beautiful wenge fretboard for my guitar. Today's plan is to cut copper fret markers, then thickness the stock, and finally machine the wenge fretboard and glue in the inlays / fret markers. This fretboard came out INCREDIBLE.
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0:00 Introduction
00:52 Copper Inlay Material
01:35 CAM for the Inlays in Fusion 360
05:43 Machining prep
09:06 Machining the copper
11:11 Inlay cleanup
13:02 CNC thickness planing method
17:14 Custom facing G-Code
20:36 Facing the wenge stock to thickness
27:24 Machining prep for inlays / roughing
30:33 Machining inlays & roughing passes
33:57 Summary of progress & mistakes
35:54 Gluing & filing in the inlays
37:04 3D Adaptive to prep for radius
37:52 3D Parallel for 12" fretboard radius
39:22 2D Contour to trim copper and fretboard to final size
39:45 Fret Slots
40:26 Results and final thoughts
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