This is the very thing I've been wrestling with for the longest time. I'm doing an angled headstock with a volute and probably drew a dozen variations. When I saw this video it was like the universe heard my cries. I also found the patch surprisingly useful as an alternative to the loft. Thank you for excellent videos.
I know the feeling mate... This has been eating at me for the better part of a year and I haven't seen many other good examples online that would work for my design. I chose a flat headstock because it's just simpler to model and machine on my CNC - but originally I wanted an angled headstock as well. I think you could use both the patch and the lofting method I showed in the video to get a similar result with an angled headstock. However, making the rails may be a bit more difficult to get tangent without some funky planes.
@@austinshaner I had a similar challenge due to the angled headstock and battled with it for a while. I took a slightly different approach by drawing my headstock on an angle extruding to the height of the volute upper edge and then first sotring out the transition. I used the jointed headstock and neck bodies to cut the surfaces and patch for the transition. Afterwards I did the extrude cut that cuts the headstock to thickness and generates the folute radius on the backside of the headstock. This gave me the most consistent and accurate results (just have some pinching on one point still but its fairly minor). I used the jointed headstock and neck bodies to cut the surfaces and patch for the transition. Your video have been a great help!
That was a master class! Thank you so much for taking the time to go through different options, and the associated pros and cons. It’s awesome to see the real struggles and what doesn’t work just as much as what does. Absolutely fantastic.
Hi, Austin! I'm following your video series and my design is coming along! -- I'm up to Part 4 and I see you've made a few of these headstock transition videos as you may have learned more as you went on. Which do you recommend that I watch first? If it's at all helpful, I'm looking to design a flat neck with asymmetrical headstock shape (like an Ibanez, Fender, etc.)
Welcome to the club. I had to use rhino3d demo in order to make an almost perfect volute in f360. 🤣 Still having issues with the perfect neck heel joint though.
IMHO a well executed diamond volute is the best looking headstock transition there is.
This is the very thing I've been wrestling with for the longest time. I'm doing an angled headstock with a volute and probably drew a dozen variations. When I saw this video it was like the universe heard my cries. I also found the patch surprisingly useful as an alternative to the loft. Thank you for excellent videos.
I know the feeling mate... This has been eating at me for the better part of a year and I haven't seen many other good examples online that would work for my design. I chose a flat headstock because it's just simpler to model and machine on my CNC - but originally I wanted an angled headstock as well. I think you could use both the patch and the lofting method I showed in the video to get a similar result with an angled headstock. However, making the rails may be a bit more difficult to get tangent without some funky planes.
@@austinshaner I had a similar challenge due to the angled headstock and battled with it for a while. I took a slightly different approach by drawing my headstock on an angle extruding to the height of the volute upper edge and then first sotring out the transition. I used the jointed headstock and neck bodies to cut the surfaces and patch for the transition. Afterwards I did the extrude cut that cuts the headstock to thickness and generates the folute radius on the backside of the headstock. This gave me the most consistent and accurate results (just have some pinching on one point still but its fairly minor). I used the jointed headstock and neck bodies to cut the surfaces and patch for the transition. Your video have been a great help!
That was a master class! Thank you so much for taking the time to go through different options, and the associated pros and cons. It’s awesome to see the real struggles and what doesn’t work just as much as what does. Absolutely fantastic.
Thank you for yet another excellent video. Super-helpful!
Great!... Thanks for the effort you are putting in to these videos
Thank you! I'm glad you are finding them useful!
Excellent video, thank you.
Dude , thanks for these videos
Hi, Austin! I'm following your video series and my design is coming along! -- I'm up to Part 4 and I see you've made a few of these headstock transition videos as you may have learned more as you went on. Which do you recommend that I watch first? If it's at all helpful, I'm looking to design a flat neck with asymmetrical headstock shape (like an Ibanez, Fender, etc.)
Welcome to the club. I had to use rhino3d demo in order to make an almost perfect volute in f360. 🤣
Still having issues with the perfect neck heel joint though.
Is this still relevant with an angled headstock and a spline volute? cause it looks like the head stock here is flat?
Hey, I always make assymetrical neck profile, and a volute that exceed a nut towards the neck profile. Will this metods work? I had some issues :)
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "cutting through the body into the neck." any chance you've got a video of that coming out?
Would a revolve profile on desired radius with desired post cut process give same result?
Damn, bro. Lost me around the 25 minute mark. I'll need to watch this and try it a few times before it sinks in.
Way to convoluted.