That looks beautiful. Very nice. How long did it take?

To be clear, the original poster mentioned a 1" (i.e. 25.4 mm) end mill, not a 1 mm as you are stating MagIO2 but yes, he will not find a one inch end...

I got all my Stepcraft axes mechanically tuned to a high standard but I still had to run at a maximum speed of 2,500 mm/min. At 3,000 mm/min, the Y an...

I have not encountered any difficulties with the drive belt on my machine but thanks for the tip anyway. Doug

In this video I demonstrate how to make a fully radiused and slotted fretboard (for a replica Brian May Red Special guitar) using CNC (Computer Numeri...

In this video I demonstrate how to make a fully radiused and slotted fretboard (for my replica Brian May Red Special guitar) using CNC. There are seve...

Hi Ollie. The fretboard will be painted with gloss black Rustins paint and then lacquered with Rustins Plastic Coating as per the original guitar s...

Hello Andrei. Based on my experience, I would not use any end mill for drilling in any material. I have done this with very slow Z plunge rates (3...

Hello Robert. I have successfully cut and milled alumimium sheet with my system which works well and I have the StoneyCNC small industrial HF spind...

Hi Craig. I am glad that Stepcraft repaired your HF500 spindle under warranty but they should have detailed what was wrong and what they did to fix...

Hi Craig. You might have already dealt with this issue but I did the same thing with two Stepcraft HF500 spindles! The reason is that the HF500 spi...

I'm sorry to hear of your continuing difficulties Peter. I doubt you will take any solace from the fact that you're preventing several other people ma...

For those of you on Facebook, check out a detailed build thread for my Brian May Red Special guitar and my first build, a 3/4 scale Red Special replic...