Guitar body feeds and speeds help

[Mvalk103 (Murray vandevalk)]

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[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

What material are you cutting?

Which machine do you have?

How will you be holding the stock in place?

[Mvalk103 (Murray vandevalk)]

It’s a hardwood. Made up of black mahogany yellow Osage and ash.

Shapeoko 4xl

Double sided adhesive on the back. Carbide3d supplied clamps and I will secure some pieces of plywood to my hybrid table.

I also have a couple of the following bits. But they are super long. I saw a video done with thick stock on a standard length bit.

I did a test run with a body made up of laminated beam. Worked pretty well. But my speeds are too fast.
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If you take a look at the pic of the body, it dropped the bit right by where the neck is inserted…up to that point it was perfect.

[Mvalk103 (Murray vandevalk)]

[Mvalk103 (Murray vandevalk)]

Here’s the result. Slowed it down quite a bit. And it worked really nicely

[scarecrow1120 (Craig Green)]

Murray,
Looking great so far. Looking at that first photo, the router is quite a ways up into the mounting block. It’s hard to tell from this angle but be sure your router is in full contact with your mounting block, if you can afford to.