Music
Musical instrument machining involves ornate and smooth shapes such as curved bodies of violins and guitars and also complex shapes such as the scroll of a violin.
Overview
Music Industries
Overview
Overview
Musical instrument machining involves ornate and smooth shapes such as curved bodies of violins and guitars and also complex shapes such as the scroll of a violin. Our CAM products feature advanced 3 Axis milling strategies as well as 2-1/2 axis machining strategies to enable music instrument makers to craft their exquisite instruments.
- V-Carving – for sign making
- Engraving – for engraving letters
- 3 Axis Parallel Finishing
- Pencil Tracing
- Constant cusp machining
- Indexed 5 Axis & Simultaneous 5 Axis machining
- Convert 2D images into 3D with the ART module
- Parts and Panel nesting with the NEST module
Music Industries
Woodworking Industries
The woodworking industry encompasses many well known disciplines like cabinetry, carpentry and furniture-making, just to name a few. Prototyping and Tool & Die are also disciplines where woodworking is largely employed.
Cabinetry
This industry employs mostly 2-½ and 3 Axis toolpaths to cut nested components from sheet stock on 3 Axis CNC Routers. The ability to automatically decompose a cabinet assembly into nested sheets ready for machining is a plus for any CAM software.
Millwork
This industry is a niche field of the architectural building industry and produces both stock and custom millwork components such as stairs, rails, and gilded paneling just to name a few. Due to the organic design power of today’s Computer Aided Design tools, millwork components can require the use of 3, 4 and 5 Axis CNC Milling Centers.
Furniture
This industry includes artistic, industrial, and functional design disciplines employed by designers and artisans alike. The form and function, of furniture design components, dictates that they employ primarily 2-1/2, 3 and 4 Axis CNC Milling centers. However, some decorative pieces can employ 5 Axis techniques as well.
Prototyping
This industry applies woodworking disciplines to a large degree. Here we include the production of composite form molds, vacuum form molds, and proof-of-concept designs that are largely machined from wood and wood by-products. These designs can also employ 3, 4 and 5 Axis CNC Milling Centers.
Tool & Die
You may think this industry would mainly include metal cutting. However, prototype and production molds are also machined from wood and wood byproducts as a proof of concept for mold cores and cavities prior to production. It is much easier and less expensive to change a cavity concept in a wood model than it is in an actual steel cavity.
Customer Successes
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Sister’s High School
Tony Cosby is the engineering, woodworking and technology teacher at Sisters High School in Sisters, Oregon. Tony’s class produces Ukulele and Luthier Guitars. Since introducing the Luthier Program in 2005, his Woodworking II class has averaged the production of 30 guitars per year. The CAM software that Tony and his team at SHS rely on every school year is VisualMILL from MecSoft Corporation!
Dingwall Guitars!
Sheldon Dingwall and Dingwall Guitars (Saskatoon, SK, Canada) is one of the pioneers in the development of today’s multi-scale fan fret electric bass guitar. Sheldon was a player from a very young age, first learning the piano at age 5, drums and then guitar at age 12!
Music Customer's Showcase
- Spector Guitars
- Die Klangwerkstatt
- Dingwall Guitars
- Heiden Stringed Instruments
- Lakewood Guitars
- McCafferty Dulcimers
- MecSoft Across America
- Murchison Made Guitars
- Oskayak High School
- Peguiron Luthier Violins
- QLF Pipe Organs
- Reith Guitars