CNC Wares 12 musical instruments boxes design collection, each design in AI, DXF, SVG, PNG and JPG formats. The collection includes the following boxes:
Telecaster Style Guitar Box
Stratocaster Style Guitar Box
Parlor Guitar Box
Martin Mandolin Style Box
Les Paul Style Guitar Box
Hofner Style Guitar Box
Selmer Maccaferri Style Guitar Box
Dreadnought Guitar Box
Classical Guitar Box
ES-335 Style Guitar Box
Martin 00 Style Guitar Box
Lute Box
Please not that this collection does not include the Gibson Firebird style guitar box, the Gibson J200 style guitar box, or the Rickenbacker 360 style guitar box.
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All of my boxes are designed to be cut from 6-inch-wide board. At this scale, the main outlines are approximately 1/8 inch apart. Of course, vectors can be scaled perfectly to any size, but keep these measurements in mind.
The outside outline is the box profile, usually cut last with a 1/4 inch spiral up-cut end mill bit.
The middle outline is for the lid pocket and the lid profile. I cut the lid pocket 1/8 inch deep to accommodate a lid of the same thickness. The lid profile is over cut with an “allowance offset” value of -0.005. For the lid pocket and profiles, I use a 1/8 inch spiral up-cut end mill bit.
I cut the finger hole profile before cutting the lid profile.
The inside outline is for the box pocket, usually cut with a 1/4 inch spiral up-cut end mill bit. For a box cut from a 7/8 inch thick piece of wood, I make this pocket 5/8 inch deep starting at 1/8 inch. That leaves 1/8 inch for the bottom of the box.