I really your guitar, especially how you were able to get that nice beveled
edge! Now I know nothing about electric guitars so if what I am saying sounds
completely insane just ignore it, but isn't an "electric" guitar supposed to
have an output jack somewhere on it to hook it up to an amplifier?

Fabien Mosen wrote:

> Here's an updated version of my electric guitar model.
> The neck is thinner (thus, easier to play), but the junction
> between the neck and the head is still not very good (it's hardly
> CSG-able).  The bridge (no tremolo) is much more detailed,
> and now placed at the right distance (distance between nutshell
> and 12th fret is equal to distance between 12th fret and bridge).
> Knots are a little more ineresting too.  The body received some kind
> of feline 2-tones sunburst finish.
>
> For those who asked how I made the chamfered body, I used 2 macros
> that makes "beveled" pie-parts and negative pie-parts (bended towards
> the outside, I can't explain better (no, really, I can't ;)).
>
> #macro BevelPie(Center,Height,Rad,AngFromX,AngTot,Bevel,Hole)
> intersection {
> union {
>   cylinder {<0,0,0>,<0,Height,>,Rad-Bevel}
>   cylinder {<0,0+Bevel,0>,<0,Height-Bevel,>,Rad}
>   torus {Rad-Bevel Bevel translate y*Bevel}
>   torus {Rad-Bevel Bevel translate y*(Height-Bevel)}
>       }
> plane {z,0 rotate y*AngFromX}
> plane {z,0 inverse rotate y*(AngFromX+AngTot)}
> cylinder {<0,-.01,0>,<0,Height+.01,0>,Hole+.01 inverse}
> translate Center
> }
> #end
>
> #macro BevelPieNeg (Center,Height,Rad,AngFromX,AngTot,Bevel,Hole)
> intersection {
> union {
>   difference {
>         cylinder {<0,Bevel,0>,<0,Height-Bevel,0>,Rad+Hole}
>         cylinder {<0,0,0>,<0,Height,0>,Rad}
>         }
>   difference {
>         cylinder {<0,0,0>,<0,Height,0>,Rad+Hole}
>         cylinder {<0,0-1,0>,<0,Height+1,0>,Rad+Bevel}
>         }
>   torus {Rad+Bevel Bevel translate y*Bevel}
>   torus {Rad+Bevel Bevel translate y*(Height-Bevel)}
>       }
> plane {z,0 rotate y*AngFromX}
> plane {z,0 inverse rotate y*(AngFromX+AngTot)}
> translate Center
> }
> #end
>
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>  [Image]

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