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It's aluminum, under one minute with a hack saw! I cut that stuff, brass, and stainless steel quite often by hand, it's no big deal! Try cutting a 4" X 6" section out of 1/4" thick brass stock, or a 2 1/2" thick stainless into several 1/4" slices with a hack saw, now that is a workout! Of course a fresh blade with the right tooth density helps.

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+1, a sharp bimetal hacksaw blade will cut those to length easily. True, the rip cut will take time; with metal, it's best to buy the stock already at the desired width -- the extra cost or cutting charge is usually worth it.
Be cautious with carbide on metal with a manual mill -- it's easy to chip a corner with the much higher forces. HSS is usually better for manual metal machining.

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I'm not sure if the HSS end mills I got is of poor quality but the carbides I got allowed much higher depth of cut, has a better finish, etc. than the HSS end mills I got.

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

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The surface grade is dependant on depth of cut, spindle speed, feed rate cutter material and the material to be cut, so it is a matter of getting those right first, and once you have those, you can test them both, and decide which one to use. I prefer taking my time and making smaller than recommended cuts, rather than wasting a bit or the stock.

In my metal machining class I needed to use a cut off bit (thin little sucker) on the lathe, and we had to sign for bits and other expensive stuff so they could keep track of where everything was, My teacher told me to bring "Both" of them back when I was done. I thought he was just thinking about something else and got confused, and went on my business. I got impatient using it at the recommended speed and ended up bringing "Both" pieces back and asking for forgiveness !

Patience is a virtue, and if you are doing all of this to hone your skills, then rushing it will not get you there.

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Thats like saying it's totally easy to build a guitar. Just get a bunch of pieces and glue them together and walaa you have a beautiful instrument.

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Without a quote as to which post or person in this thread you are referring to, it is hard to grasp your position doftesia. For sake of clarification, can you point me/us in the right direction?

By the way it's voilà (French: see there) not walaa, not to be mistaken for viola; an instrument of the violin family which most of us are very familiar with of course.

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Hey Tai Fu:

I just read your original post over to get my bearings, As far as nails to pound; that could be anything, but an aluminum bridge on an acoustic guitar is not such a bad Idea. Some varieties of Aluminum have great tonal qualities, and although an experiment in machining, it is more of an experiment in engineering as the traditional design won't do (It's been done, but did not pan out). You will have to come up with a "Sound" design (pun intended) to allow the bridge to flex enough to not restrict the movement of the top, and at the same time add a more bell like tone wood can not provide. The fact that ovation guitars are more akin to helicopter construction than that of a guitar (Charles Kamen it's designer, was an aerodynamacist and helicopter engineer) does not take away that it's unique sound found a place in the heart of many players and even became a signature of people like Jeff Lynn of ELO and turned out to have just the right sound for many songs by artists as great as David Gilmore of Pink Floyd (wish you were here) that no other guitar could duplicate.

There is no "one right way" to construct guitars although there are some major wrong ways, the latter more obvious than the preceding. Different does not automatically equate to bad, and the unfamiliar can easily become the familiar once it's found its place.

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yes?

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com

By the way, it's dofthesea....
walaa

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.