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If it's fiberglass, and it looks like it to me, good luck with your tools! If it's light greenish, it's likely G10/FR4 which is a fire resistant material. You can cut that stuff with carbide but the tools wear fast. I used to rout a lot of the stuff, but with PCD endmills. Which are...

You can power the smoothstepper USB via the 5V from the USB cable, which is what I do on one machine. I'm also using Win10x64, with no problems. You'll need a 26-pin IDC connector to 25-pin d-sub (or better known as parallel port) cable

Could be kamansilles... bears a fruit called kamansi that's cooked more like a vegetable. One of the few fruits I know where you eat the "seeds." I might actually have a small board here that I brought back.

I don't think it's as fast with cues, at least the nice ones, because you'd normally have it in a case when it's not in use, and, at least where I've played, windows usually don't exist! Sunlight can darken the wood, though many modern finishes have some sort of UV blockers that help preserve...

Even red oak can be figured... Would you believe this was destined to be stair tread until I "rescued" it?! The original board was 10' long... [/url]20160409_135805 by Louie Atienza, on Flickr[/IMG]

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I have some white oak that's incredibly figured.... unfortunately too narrow a board for guitar making, but I should yield some nice full-length butt squares out of it. White oak is a bit heavier than red...

OR you can get one of these, but COMPLETE OVERKILL: http://www.theinturn.com/

Precision/repeatability is far more important in a CNC than accuracy. Precision is like hitting the edge of a bullseye with an arrow at the same exact spot every single time. Accuracy is hitting inside the bullseye, but at different spots every time. So this means removing as much backlash...

Try Motion Constrained on eBay and their website.

I think the correct term for the figuring is "pomelle", or like a quilt, but in miniature... some nice examples in bubinga and sapele...

It's not the easiest thing to get a nice, clear piece of holly that doesn't move when you look at it... at least large enough for what I'd like to use it for...

I like using wax on my shafts. Rub it on, let it sit and stiffen up, wipe the excess off. Then burnish with leather. When it's time to clean, which is not often, I dab a towel with some naptha and it removes the wax, taking most if not all the dirt with it, and I can reapply the wax. If for...

As many here, I'd support the independent builders, many of which are members here and would probably make you something spectacular for that price...

Another cool idea would be to weave electroactive polymers in with the CF, where the shaft can react almost instantaneously, based on a microprocessor in the butt. The shaft could also then be programmed for damping, (or evwn amplification), stiffness, bend profile... with presets saved and...

In the acoustic guitar (and violin) world, some of the more scientifically and methodically minded builders will use a tone generator with a speaker to "excite" the soundboard, which would have been sprinkled with something like glitter, sand, or sawdust, which would create "Chladni" patterns -...

I think the better term would be bend profile. It's done with golf shafts, and fitters have a program with over 2000 shafts, with measurements for frequency to bend profile to weight to weight distribution, etc... to help match a shaft to the golfer's swing to maximize distance and accuracy...

I've owned some late 70's "kit" guitars from Mighty Mite, Boogie Bodies, Schecter, that had solid rosewood bodies and necks, solid brass bridges and nuts, knobs, pickup rings... even control plates. Slinging a 14lb guitar for a 3-hour gig is no fun. Sustain was great... though I cannot say I...

Possibly... could be a sign that the glue had failed for the laminations, or that area was starved of glue...

They sell it at the big box stores too. It's used a lot for residential installation of laminates (Formica, WIlsonart, Nevamar, etc...) Every year there seems to be a home explosion somewhere where the installers (a good percentage unwitting homeowners and not-so-smart contractors) decide to...