Aluminum neck guitars

[aen]

HOW ABOUT AN ALUMINUM DICK?

[mathias]

HOW ABOUT AN ALUMINUM DICK?

Come to my Makerspace's shop in Milwaukee and we can arrange that.


(wish it had the Flickr notes overlay to point out what everything is. oh well. There's a bridgeport mill, CNC machine, about 4 drill presses, lathe, bandsaws, arbor press, all manner of hand tools, welders, plasma cutters, laser cutter, PCB etching stuff and a PCB-cutting CNC, a full electronics lab with oscilloscopes, etc, and the most important part: a pinball machine.)

[aen]

HOW ABOUT AN ALUMINUM DICK?

Come to my Makerspace's shop in Milwaukee and we can arrange that.


(wish it had the Flickr notes overlay to point out what everything is. oh well. There's a bridgeport mill, CNC machine, about 4 drill presses, lathe, bandsaws, arbor press, all manner of hand tools, welders, plasma cutters, laser cutter, PCB etching stuff and a PCB-cutting CNC, a full electronics lab with oscilloscopes, etc, and the most important part: a pinball machine.)

I heard about that on NPR TODAY! Im so jealous!!!!
Maybe when we vacation to milwaukee (funny to you maybe) we can drop by?

[mathias]

HOW ABOUT AN ALUMINUM DICK?

Come to my Makerspace's shop in Milwaukee and we can arrange that.


(wish it had the Flickr notes overlay to point out what everything is. oh well. There's a bridgeport mill, CNC machine, about 4 drill presses, lathe, bandsaws, arbor press, all manner of hand tools, welders, plasma cutters, laser cutter, PCB etching stuff and a PCB-cutting CNC, a full electronics lab with oscilloscopes, etc, and the most important part: a pinball machine.)

I heard about that on NPR TODAY! Im so jealous!!!!
Maybe when we vacation to milwaukee (funny to you maybe) we can drop by?

Yes, I'm always up for giving tours and playing with the tools Just get in touch and we'll set something up.

Edit: hopefully the music group has some more projects to show off by then. We've got an entire church organ worth of organ pipes that we're going to hang them up on the walls, hook up to a midibox and trigger via Twitter or RFID cards..

[mathias]

And I've derailed yet another thread..

[kosta]

We've got an entire church organ worth of organ pipes that we're going to hang them up on the walls, hook up to a midibox and trigger via Twitter or RFID cards..

Motherfucker, T H I S ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! (Clips or it's a child's toy piano played by church mice.)

[mathias]

We've got an entire church organ worth of organ pipes that we're going to hang them up on the walls, hook up to a midibox and trigger via Twitter or RFID cards..

Motherfucker, T H I S ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! (Clips or it's a child's toy piano played by church mice.)

When it is done, there will be clips. Lots of folks want to get this done, and if the CNC router project is any indication, these guys can all build stuff fast and still have it be well-made. (All those walls + doors in the pic went up in November, equipment got moved in December, we built the CNC router over the past 3 months or so and it can probably route a guitar body right now, but we haven't figured out all the CAD software.)

Here's the most complex thing we've routed on the CNC machine we built:

[kosta]

Machine you up some aluminum necks for old Rossy then! (There, now we're back on topic!)

[mathias]

The mill could probably be used to machine one, it's just a lot of work

When we have a CNC that can cut aluminum (we're not sure if the CNC router can be adapted to do it yet, but it has a modular tool mount) we could do it faster, we'd just need to program the CAD files..

[eatyourguitar]

in soviet russia DIY CNC machine makes itself

[starcastic]

Dude, cool shop! Gotta stop by one day!

[RossCanyonsofstatic]

[nieh]

The bass player in my school jazz band has an aluminum neck Kramer bass and it plays and looks good.

[starcastic]

I played a Kramer aluminum neck in the first band I was ever in. It belonged to my bandmate's father. That was back in 1995, but I remember notes ringing out forever and it had a really special tone when played through distortion.

[nieh]

mathias, make all of us aluminum necks!