Me too. I really try to intentionally turn them into features instead of flaws.

Yea man, that stuff is just not a concern with the cnc

Yea, it looks scary when sped up, eh? That blade is old and dull, needs to go.

​@@timswayone guy was gonna sharpen my saw blade cause it was smoking dull. Instead he cleaned at no charge and it cut great again. I believe he soaked it in???ammonia and scrubbed it wth wire brush . saved $

good point! cleaning can do a lot of good.@@stevepethel6843

If you wanted to make this fretless you could epoxy the fret lines or not cut them at all. Personally, I would not cut the position markers and cut just the lines, shorter but wider, to just serve as visual aides. Like just a 1/2" down from the top, longer for the marked ones, 3,5,7,9,12.

ouch. I resemble that.

lol. In doing this series, I'm doing things with handhelds and table mount routers I hadn't done in years - and apparently forgot how to! I forgot how much time is spent peeling backs off two sided tape, triple checking cutter depths, sweeping... I was afraid CNC would further remove me from what I love to do, but in fact it does the opposite.

yes! I use those on my cnc, too. they work great for plywood and soft wood, but tend to not do well with really hard woods, like this maple.

Personally I set it to the material stock height. So say I begin with a blank that's .75" thick, I need to leave at least some part of the blank that thick to set my depth for each tool change. Using the model height would get risky, I think. Some people always start at the wasteboard height, but then you have to make sure you're set to that in all your gcode instead of material height.

@@timsway Thanks Tim! I am extremely new to cnc and have been experimenting with milling a neck through design this week. To say it has been challenging would be an understatement. I finally got through the adaptive clearing, the parallel, and the contour processes and found that the g code did not take the material on the back of the neck down to the models thickness… My design had the neck around 14-16mm thick and the body portion around 42mm the body portion is nearly dead on, while the neck came out close to 32mm thick… any suggestions on what I did wrong?

I love my Avid CNC

I have made them from water skis and snow skis. But old ones, made of wood. Videos on my channel. Snow boards are usually lightweight composites, not wood, etc., lacking the structural integrity. I think what you'd need to do is make a bass that "looks" like a snowboard.

I remember the waterski episode and that looked like a fun build. Good point about the snowboards being composites and very "springy". I made a chair out of old skis and snowboards and had to glue and screw a couple together for rigidity. @@timsway

lol!