A Classical Guitar

[dale]

I started this project with a classical guitar, as I thought it would be a little easier than a steel string, which I intend to do next. This one is a little incomplete in that it doesn't have all the internal bracing, purflings etc, but it is built to scale. With the steel string I would like it to have all parts, scaled and made as components, and use it as a design that I can build from.
The model, for me was quite a challenge and gave me a chance to refine skills in rubies like Tigs Extrude Edges by Rails, without which I could never have modeled the heel, and Draw Metal, which allows for some incredible tapers.
So I guess this is a work in progress.
The rendering is in Kerkythea, and I confess not spending much time on the scene.
Anyways thought I'd share, and thank the Ruby masters once again.

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[tridem]

nice one, Dale! it deserves some improvements, starting from a better lighting and higher render settings. A guitar you can show to guitarists is a difficult modeling work and I see you've done very well but a closer view (or a higher size) is needed to appreciate the details. looking forward next updates
Luca

[dale]

Thanks tridem. Here are a couple of quick detail renderings.I'd love to spend the time to create a proper scene with better lighting, and if I get the time I will.
I really wasn't so much thinking of this as a rendering project, (but who can resist) more to see if I'll be able to accurately enough model the components of a guitar to alter designs and build from it. There are still a few rough spots, but I think I can work them out.

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[mitcorb]

Excellent work so far there dale.
In your model, did you use real world dimensions or did you size everything up to avoid problems with tiny triangles, and so forth?
I have a steel string guitar model not rendered except with Sketchup toon colors. I even put the manufacturer's logo on the headstock. At the time of doing the heel, only Chris Fullmer's Loft tool was available. I did the strings with helix and lines2tubes. There are a lot of inaccuracies because I modeled in real world dimensions. And the skp file is about 5 mb.

[dale]

Thanks mitcorb
I built it to exact specs in John Bogdanovich's Book "Building the Classical Guitar a Modern Approach". I did scale it up to work on it, and was back and forth between imperial and metric depending on what I was modeling. I had difficulties modeling where the head and neck joined, so there are some compromises there, and I didn't spend any time on the strings, again more concentrating on the actual detail of the model.
I tried to actually load the .skp file to the forum but even zipped it's about 12 megs, about 19 unzipped.Another quick render.

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[dale]

Last one for right now. That damn work gets in the way of all my fun. Thanks for the comments.

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