Milling Upper Section of Brian May Red Special Guitar with Stepcraft 2/840 CNC Machine
Milling the upper body section of a replica Brian May Red Special electric guitar using a Stepcraft 2/840 CNC machine with an industrial HF spindle from StoneyCNC.
Feed rate 2,000 mm/min
Plunge rate 120 mm/min
Spindle speed 20,000 rpm.
Depth removed per pass mm on both the roughing and finishing passes.
Total cut time 1 hour 50 minutes (9 m 20 s for the upper face and 1 h 40 m for the lower face). Recorded with a Canon Powershot G15 camera which limits the file size to 4 GB.