Carvin Carved Top Guitars - Sunny Side Up by L.A. Underscore
I thought I would show you a little bit about how some electric guitars are made. Now there are two ways you can make a guitar today. The first is with old fashion hands on carving. Making the guitar more of a hand made guitar. The other way is more common today and that's CNC Machining.I like CNC myself, I enjoy the whole process and like the benefits it gives. Now if you don't know what CNC means it stands for Computer Numerical Control. And what's that you ask?
Basically this is what happens. You have you're computer, and use a CAD program. CAD stands for Computer Aided Design. With that program you draw the part you want to make. In this case it's a guitar body. You can make you're part in 2D and also 3D if you want. When the part is made, you use a CAM program. CAM stands for Computer Aided Manufacturing. The CAM program will take you're drawing and convert it so that you're CNC Machine knows what to do. It will tell you're CNC Machine what tools to use for the cutting and what path to take so that the part you had drawn will come out right in real life.
So that's basically it. Now some guitar makers don't like CNC. And I can understand that. Because it takes away some of that human touch. The guitar would not be considered "hand made". Well it's still hand made, it's just that it's done a bit different. Also I would guess some would consider it very complicated. And the machines and all that goes with it don't come cheap either.
So this video will show you how a guitar body is carved. The guitar maker here is Carvin Guitars from California. And we get to see the body in the CNC Machine being cut and then it's fitted with the pickups and other controls. Last we get to see the painting and we will be shown how the final product looks. This clip is from a Carvin promo DVD.
The music in the background in this video is a very nice instrumental song called Sunny Side Up by L.A. Underscore.
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