Amazing. I can't wait to get my machine and get started on this, and the electric guitars I've been designing using the methods I learned from your instructional videos!

I am a little sceptical about the integrated braces. The braces are supposed to take up some heavy load from the string tension, but the fibres in your "braces" do not follow the braces. The fibres go across the braces. No luthier would make braces from wood with the fibres in this direction. The braces also have another function: they try to keep the top from cracking due to drying. I think you should be really careful about these integrated braces.

Well I was also...but I have a guitar build with this going on about 1 year now, with .13's as strings applying heavy pressure to the top...and so far, no problems....I will keep monitoring it, and your concerns are valid, but I wonder what luthiers would have build if they had access to today's technology....just because "it has always been done this way" is not a good enough reason for me not to do this... we will see how this holds up, but so far, the results are great, and so is the sound!

Great job very interesting

Can you do custom work. In particular a Gibson super 400 ces arch top Please let me know

Hi, amazing job, thank your for uploading. Where can I buy or obtain that L-5 template to make my one? thank you so much.

Thanks Cyborg, awesome video and thanks for the incredible amount of information you make available to the guitar building public. Though, from the comments, there seem to be trolls even here! So many armchair ‘Luthiers’ telling you why your design won’t work! I love your comment about, well, you built it and it sounds great and the guitar is playing well for 3 years - seems like evidence is apparently not enough! I’ve built many acoustics (not arch tops) and I am totally into the maths and physics of it all, but I also played and performed professionally for 25 years. A lot of my favourite sounding guitars don’t pass any of my tests for what I ‘think’ or hypothesise should be good construction, but they sound perfect in their own way. Here’s to exact science - but in-exact ears of musicians!!

thanks, one more thing, the magnets you are using in your dust shoe , where did you get them? are you selling the dxf of the design as well>? thanks

@MrGuitarbike Yes, the CNC is designed in Solidworks, and I made it myself...again, more information is on my site, along with some renderings etc...thanks!

It is a TeknoMotor.... Check them out, really good spindles. This is the 1 HP model, and I am using a Delta VFD to drive it.....you can also buy them from damencnc....really good prices and awesome to deal with....

So how did that work out, integrating the braces into the top face? Interesting idea. How does Gibson make 335's? Do the take a fla piece and form the curve, or do they carve it like you're doing?

@JBacklunddesign it is my own creation...designed it and build it myself...

can you sent me this desinged which you drew in mastercam?

I "designed" the guitar in Solidworks, and I "machined" it in Mastercam...Mastercam for machining, SolidWorks for design! :-)

wonder if those carved in braces are as strong as mounted braces with different grain ? would the one piece top with no glued in braces sound better?

Very good work! What program do you use for the 3D design?

wow....another inspiring video...great job,,,, but where do you buy the clamp?i've been search it but it's very hard to find it....

Hi,whatis your cintact info,thanks.

You wrote this in Mastercam?

This is innovative stuff.

That David guy is so funny!! Just send me the design.... :)... question, where did you source the spindle and what model is it? thanks

I agree with Björn Gröhn. The inside braces need to be made seperate.

Those integrated braces seem like a great inovation! What is your conclusion on quality of the sound produced by the top using that method? Is it as good as with glued braces?

If you have a thick enough wood can you carve out the sides and top in 1 piece?

What machine do you use..?? Would you recommend that same machine or an upgrade??

Hi. Which plan are you using? Thanks!

My knee hurts. Oh, this is awesome! Did you make thiscnc!

Wow, that is awesome! What thickness blank wood did you begin with and what was the final thickness of the edges of the top?

do you sell the program for this procedure??

The braces need to have the grain running straight through them so they need to be seperate, This may be enough, but it is giving up a lot of extra strength.

Having the top and the bracings from 1 piece of wood is awesome!

It is amazing what you can find when you do a google search! Like for example "rare earth magnets..." :-) No, the .dxf or any file, is NOT for sale by itself, the whole model IS INCLUDED on the instructional videos however, and from that, you can generate STL, DXF, etc....

Функция пружин натягивать деку а не быть ее частью.

Endmill

Otherwise great job

@gandulfo77 It is amazing the amount of information you will find when you visit the link at the end of this video :-) Thank you very much for your comments!

Oh come on buddy, of course I can google it .. hellooooo??? I was trying to find them locally so I don't have to waiiiittttt for them..... so that tells me that you ordered them..... thanks.... :-{ )

Yes, Can you send me $500.00?? No problem, I would be more than glad to send it to you then...I accept paypal...check out my site!