Guitar coaters and holder- Design Tech Project

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I made some guitar coasters with a guitar rack-shaped coaster holder. When I first started, I decided I wanted to have them be slightly different designs and sizes so it felt more realistic. I made them in Adobe Illustrator, which was probably the most time-consuming part of the project. I had to create all of the outlines and line breaks around the neck and strings of the guitar. I had to mess around a lot with the sizing and line weight so they could actually fit a cup on top, which required a bit of trial and error. Once they were done, I laser cut them and engraved the designs. 

After the guitars were finished, I started on the coaster holder. I went through a couple of prototypes, one was an upside-down triangle which had some issues with the wieght of the neck on the guitar, and then eventually settled on a guitar stand-like design with neck and base supports to keep them upright. I outlined the two sides in Illustrator so I could be sure they were scaled to the size of my guitars. They were imported into an app called Easel so the CNC router could cut out the sides, carve pockets for the dowels, and make a rack. The original neck holding segment turned out to be a little too wide and long, which gave the guitars too much room to move around, so I resized it smaller and narrower so they stay more fixed in place

Once I had everything made, I sanded them down, first with a 150-grit sandpaper and then moving upwards to a 220-grit. I glued the guitar rack pieces together and varnished them in three steps by first adding a coat of varnish, burnishing it with steel wool, and then reaplying the varnish. We did this to
remove some of the tacky feeling of the wood varnish. I'm really excited about how the details of the guitars turned out. The Illustrator step was definitely the most challenging part because I had to keep track of all of the lines to make sure I didn't accidentally cut off the neck of one of my guitars again. If I did this again, I would have made the necks shorter so they could be more practical as coasters. I'm going to gift them to my guitar teacher now that they're done!






 

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