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Joe Costello

Student — Denver, CO

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Published:: Aug 01, 2011

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Carbon Fiber Hollowbody Guitar

This set documents the design and construction of a traditionally-styled hollowbody electric guitar using carbon fiber laminate in place of wood for the main body. The fabrication of this project will be featured in the upcoming book "Composite Materials Fabrication Handbook #3" by John Wanberg.... First test-run video: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108613693708967394597/posts/Str7FFwZxoQ Update: Awarded "People's Choice Best of Show" at the 2012 Metro State Senior Design Show .

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Gretsch Tech Drawing AutoCAD - AutoCAD 2D

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Temporarily Acoustic

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Jonathan House Apr 27, 2012

Awesome texture and material work! Everything works perfectly!
Karineh Zohrabi Apr 26, 2012

perfect! great work.~
Ron Williams Apr 24, 2012

Joe, Nice work!
Zeeshan Rana (grafixgold) Apr 23, 2012

Awesome work! your material skin looks great!
Jeremy Dennis Apr 23, 2012

Great job!
Brenden Sullivan Apr 21, 2012

this is amazing. thought all these shots were 3D at first. beautiful build, dude!
Ron Williams Apr 20, 2012

woW...
Joe Costello Apr 20, 2012

Thanks Szabo. These look so real because they are. The Solidworks files were used to create the mold to physically make the guitar.
Szabo Adorian Apr 20, 2012

So beautiful.
Szabo Adorian Apr 20, 2012

Very nice, it's like so, so real. In what software created and rendering it?? it's much, much better like mine, created in Solidworks. Congratulations.
Joe Costello Apr 20, 2012

Thanks guys. Check the set description, I linked to a (cell-phone-recorded) video of my consult putting it through its first abuses. I'll get you a better video at some point. And thanks Dex; look for it at the senior design show next month.
Dex Woodard Apr 20, 2012

Joe, I remember when you were working on this. It turned out nice.
Tim Biery Apr 20, 2012

I second the 'how does it sound?' comment. Video!
Joe MacCarthy Apr 20, 2012

Money Shot!
Joe MacCarthy Apr 20, 2012

Holy sh*t! This turned out great! Post a video of you playing it for sure. How does it sound? That carbon fiber look is bad-ass.

Joe MacCarthy Apr 20, 2012

Holy sh*t! This turned out great! Post a video of you playing it for sure. How does it sound? That carbon fiber look is bad-ass.
Joe MacCarthy Apr 20, 2012

Money Shot!
Tim Biery Apr 20, 2012

I second the 'how does it sound?' comment. Video!
Dex Woodard Apr 20, 2012

Joe, I remember when you were working on this. It turned out nice.
Joe Costello Apr 20, 2012

Thanks guys. Check the set description, I linked to a (cell-phone-recorded) video of my consult putting it through its first abuses. I'll get you a better video at some point. And thanks Dex; look for it at the senior design show next month.
Szabo Adorian Apr 20, 2012

Very nice, it's like so, so real. In what software created and rendering it?? it's much, much better like mine, created in Solidworks. Congratulations.
Szabo Adorian Apr 20, 2012

So beautiful.
Joe Costello Apr 20, 2012

Thanks Szabo. These look so real because they are. The Solidworks files were used to create the mold to physically make the guitar.
Ron Williams Apr 20, 2012

woW...
Brenden Sullivan Apr 21, 2012

this is amazing. thought all these shots were 3D at first. beautiful build, dude!
Jeremy Dennis Apr 23, 2012

Great job!
Zeeshan Rana (grafixgold) Apr 23, 2012

Awesome work! your material skin looks great!
Ron Williams Apr 24, 2012

Joe, Nice work!
Karineh Zohrabi Apr 26, 2012

perfect! great work.~
Jonathan House Apr 27, 2012

Awesome texture and material work! Everything works perfectly!

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