Michael Winston Dales Guitars: 3d Printing

Updates on my Älgen guitar design

4 Oct 2021 - 3d printing, älgen, dying, jigs, nylon, templates

Updates on my Älgen guitar design: getting some actual wood, experiments in dying 3D prints, and designing some hopefully correctly complicated jigs.

Pushing forward the design of the new guitar

2 Sep 2021 - 3d printing, älgen, dying, fusion 360

Pushing forward with the new guitar design: sweating the details of how to put it together, and getting help from the maker community with how to dye 3D printed parts.

Mapping out a new path to getting back into the workshop

3 Jun 2021 - 3D-printing, concepts, design

A look at how to define what it is I do as a luthier as a way to motivate me to pickup my tools again.

A crude render of a blocky guitar design. There's a core bit of wood that runs the length of the guitar from where the headstock would be to the tail, with a fretboard glued on, and the sides of the body are a plastic lattice-work.

A mixed week as I make some dust in someone else's workshop, fettle an old handplane back to perfect condition, 3D-print a new tool, share some knowledge, and ship out a set of fuzz pedals into the world.

A week barely in the shop

15 Oct 2018 - 3D-printing, CNC-router

I help a local luthier out with some CNC work, and I make some tiny 3D-printed guitars to let me test new designs.

The author's hand, holding a stack of tiny 3D-printed guitar bodies, one of which has a neck also.

3D printed Fretboard Radius Gauges

7 Sep 2018 - 3d printing, open source

One of the advantages of a 3D printer is you can make your own tools. I recently forgot to bring my fretboard radius gauge set into the workshop, so I quickly whipped up a design in Autodesk Fusion 360, which is parametrisable so I can quickly change the design to the desired radius, and then printed out the gauge I needed - I was back up and running in less than half an hour! To save you the effort of the design stage I've published the designs for you to use!

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