Proxxon GE20 Pantograph - Guitar Inlay Experiment

I bought a pantograph for my Proxxon IBS/e multitool, to try to improve my guitar inlays. The pantograph allows you to use oversized templates, which should increase the accuracy of cutting the inlays and holes. In this video, I show my first attempt at making an inlay with the pantograph, using a template that I had created and also making a template for the hole by using thermoplastic beads.
Although this video was published during the Great Guitar Build Off 2020, it's nothing to do with it! The inlay was for a different guitar.
0:00 Introduction
2:16 Thermoplastic template
5:54 Cutting the inlay
7:49 Cutting the hole
9:28 My conclusions

[@stoufenatz3728]

very interesting ! Thanks a lot Jonathan !

[@JohnClothier]

Very interesting experiment. IT might be worth looking at milliput for the template instead of that plastic.

[@ChrisFranklyn]

I've got a tub of that melty plastic and have spent ages wondering what to do with it. Not that then :) However that pantograph could be incredibly useful with a stencil for carving logos in a headstock.

[@mark64tanner]

Thanks for demoing that tool Jon.
Considering making a bigger 1:1 version with a full size router. could be very useful.
Cheers
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[@jonathanoakey4745]

I thought that it looked potentially very useful and there weren't any videos covering this kind of application. The bigger version would be very useful for things like routing out the body and carves....I've seen various solutions like that which are used by some of the professional luthiers, although a lot of them are using CNCs instead nowadays (which I don't really intend to do).

[@mark64tanner]

@@jonathanoakey4745 yeah, saw one when I visited Texas Toast last year (before the world fell apart ;( ) so glad I has the opportunity and took it. Who knows when we'll be allowed to travel again (I'm in Victoria Australia)
Take care Jon
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[@angelforceforyou]

What’s the smallest font it can engrave? Could you use it drag style without the motor?

[@miniaturehome]

Thanks for the video. I got one of these and I’m having trouble with accuracy in copying the pattern. The pattern is perfectly symmetrical, but the resulting piece is about 3-4% smaller on one side than the other. Have you experienced anything like that?

[@jonathanoakey4745]

I haven't noticed that. Are you using the pantograph at an angle? I'd try to make sure that the template and the piece that you are cutting are all directly in front of the swivel point. Other than that, I don't know - I haven't used it much more since I made the video.

[@miniaturehome]

@@jonathanoakey4745 Thanks. My best guess is that the pattern tracer stylus isn’t exactly perpendicular the table. I’ve spent two days checking everything I can think to check and talked to a friend yesterday who has a Deckel pantograph and is expert on every tool imaginable. He suggested some more things to check, but nothing helps. It’s so maddening! When I engraved my name right after taking it out of the box, it seemed to work fine, and I don’t know what’s different now.

[@RokaFiel]

This machine cut and engrave silver and gold ?

[@jonathanoakey4745]

I don't use it for that but I would imagine so.

[@jassemail9769]

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