Dearmond Rhythm Chief 1100 Cover Design

[belwar]

Well its taken me four weeks and alot of learning, but I finally finished my first task in solidworks. I've been wanting to try "deep drawing" aka stamping so I figured I'd start with a cover that I cant buy off the shelf, but I would like to make... So I took the Rhythm Chief 1100 that I have, pulled off the cover and drew it.. The hardest part of the cover is the nubby for the wire (nubby is a technical term by the way).

What do you think? Any areas that need improvement?

ML

PS: Excuse the color of the picture - For some reason it didnt save well from photoshop... not sure why. I'll try to take a picture from my work computer tommorow which has a Quadro graphics card and will add texture.

[jonson]

Cover

Love it!! Man after me own heart. If you ain't got it make it. Bit more advanced than my straight line scribbles I do on a cad but we do get there, so keep right on.
Anyone know whats happened to Pickup Junkie as I had high hopes for him too, yet he seems to have dissapeared.

[Possum]

...

Looks good but is anyone going to be able to use this to actually make the part?

[belwar]

Looks good but is anyone going to be able to use this to actually make the part?

Yup. Most people that do quick drawing want a file like this. Solidworks lets you take a part like this and create a mold from it. It's a really cool program. It works in two parts ... Parts and an assembly. First you create all your individual part files, then assemble them in an assembly. So for example you can draw your humbucker assembly and the 10 or so parts its made from.

I want to try and stamp it myself. If I cant i'll job it out to this local company who would trade a guitar for the tooling.

The baseplate and bobbin are next

[Spence]

Sometime last year I went to have a look at the excavated timbers of a 15th century ship. It had taken some years to stabilise the wood but having done this and identified each piece, they did a laser scan on each piece.



The whole point of what I'm saying is that they could then make a scale model of the ship from all these 3D scans. In the same way, it would be very easy to do a 3D scan of your DeArmond cover and get a die made.

[David King]

Belwar,
I'm just mildly curious how you came to have a working copy of solid works.
Parametric cad is usually beyond the means of small time guitar companies and pickup makers.

[belwar]

Belwar,
I'm just mildly curious how you came to have a working copy of solid works.
Parametric cad is usually beyond the means of small time guitar companies and pickup makers.

We make 13000 guitars a year.

Its actually not that expensive a program. My mastercam licence almost double the cost at $10000 for mill level 3.

[David King]

Ahhh,
I must have missed that somewhere along the line.
I didn't mean to sound like a nark or anything

[belwar]

Ahhh,
I must have missed that somewhere along the line.
I didn't mean to sound like a nark or anything

I don't advertise it - So it's OK :>