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Not sure if anyone else has seen this or been posted. (if it has just ignore/delete) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNMbEHGXCMY&t=393s

Hey! For those who use the foam cutters, which ones are you buying? They have a "luthier" set with a cranked up price and a variac attached. I have heard folks say the cutters burn up after a while so is it worth buying the more expensive ones? Thanks!

tl;dw - switch to Outer Walls first, then inner walls. In orca/bambu studio, the video says to do inner/outer/inner. It also mentions the travel distance threshold in Retraction settings - setting it to 1 or 2mm; I didn't quite understand what that accomplishes.

For folks familiar with the Gore / Gilet books and the top thickness calculations in section 4.5. I made a web based calculator to do the nasty spreadsheet math... So this is for once you've weighed and measured your top plates and then found the long, cross and transverse resonances it gives you the target thickness to hit a particular frequency for the long resonance of the plate. Just sharing so folks don't have to do the math for bu…

Hey Everyone! Does anyone have experience with using the neck jig/shop stand setup without bolting the stand to the floor? Eventually I will bolt it down but want to try a few different spots to commit (still working on shop layout). I just had epoxy floors put down and do not want to drill extra holes in the floor! Thanks!

I have access to a nova thunderlaser 5-something and I saw a video of somebody cutting out a fret board as well as the fret slots, as well as an entire neck out of a blank with a laser cutter, and I’m wondering if this is a reasonable thing to do and if anybody has experience with the kind of shrinkage that would probably happen with such a deep cut in the neck blank. Any insight at all is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Just noticed this category was here. Since nobody has jumped in, I'll be the first. We've had our Plek machine since last summer and did just over 300 Plek jobs in the first year. It has become a tremendous asset in our business. I'm happy to be a part of any discussion here. :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/s/LVqO575nA0

It's getting to that time of year again where workshops are getting cold. What are you all using for heating? etc, Are you heating overnight? What temperatures do you find guitars and your bones can withstand. What do you find helps balance heat and humidity? Just a discussion about winter in the workshop.

Hello! Any FreeCAD users? I've trialing software version 0.21.2 for the last few months with success. Both CAD and CAM are more than functional. There are some quirks in the CAD side that I found that could be worked through, mainly in constraints. These quirks remind me of the "odd logic" that had to be used in older CAD software. Just starting conversation.

I'm always looking for tools that I might need and probably use once (if at all), but will definitely buy them...I need a support group for this habit... Found this the other day and thought I'd share... tons of Graphite, Nomex, fiberglass, specialty hand tools that could be at home in a Geetar shop... I bought the print catalog...but download pdf link here... https://www.aircraftspruce.com/pdf/2025Individual/Cat25.pdf