Designing a Guitar Body

This 3-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on guitar body design. During the activity students design a wooden guitar body with Vcarve Pro CAD software. The activity was designed as a capstone project "for second and third year students already familiar with CAD and CAM." The learning objectives for this activity are: 

1. Students will be able to investigate and explore guitar body style option on Google.
2. Students will be able to sketch a few options.
3. Students will be able to create CAD vectors starting with a DXF file of the electronics and pockets of the guitar.
4. Students will be able to create CAM tool paths to program our Shopbot CNC to cut out guitar bodies.

The resource includes the following sections: Learning Objectives, Standards, Materials Required, Safety, References, Activity, and more.