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I knew that for this design, I would only be able to mill from one side unless I wanted to vastly complicate things by flip milling. So, I aimed to make really nice, curvy guitar neck. As a non-mechanical person, this took me a bit of time to model nicely in Rhino.

Sara, one of the TAs, gave me a really nice chunk of three-ply laminated plywood to mill out my guitar in one solid piece! Though guitars aren't normally milled out of a single block of wood, it simplifies a lot of the mechanical assembly for me.

With Zach, I used a nice, large Onsrud mill in the architecture shop with a vacuum bed. Zach also helped me a ton with the CAM, and once the job was running, it only took about fifteen loud minutes.

The physical product needed quite a bit of sanding once it was fully cut out.

Eventually, I got it nice and smooth!

I'm hoping to shave down the neck an eighth of an inch and make a laser-cut, acrylic rectangular chassis for the board itself. The board will then fix to the acrylic which will fixture to the neck.