[Puresoundguitar]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for this great thread, it has been a pleasure to read through!

Can you enlighten me on a couple of things?

How do you achieve that awesome finish after machining the back of the neck?

I'll be doing a neck soon, CNC'ed, and i'm aiming at 0.001in scallop height, with a 1/2 Ball-nose.

Will be machining at around 50ipm, 12000rpm.

Can you give me your input? Are these reasonable values?

Ok, second question:

When cutting your fret slots, can you give me your parameters? I mean, depth of cut, feed, spindle speed...

In my case i'm aiming at .008 - .010 in terms of depth of cut...

Any help will be gratly appreciated.

In the meantime, this body was machined with a .005in scallop. Not too bad, but i'm aiming for a better finish.

Thanks in advance!