For some reason, which totally escapes me (other than I’ve been pretty busy in the last two years…), I have failed to maintain ‘current’ events on this website. Well, the last few days I have had some time (while waiting for finish to cure on a very important woodworking project) … Continue reading
Category Archives: CNC Router
Terrain Map Box Birthday Present
Refining my CNC carving skills I realized I could try carving terrain maps on Corian. I saw something similar added on to a wooden box and decided this would make a great birthday present for a friend of mine. So, after capturing a terrain map of Penobscot Bay from Terrain2STL, … Continue reading
Finally framed the Wall Art I made for Christmas…
I finally got around to making the frame for the Wall Art I made for Christmas. The frame is made of 24 segments of Maple, glued together into a 24 side polygon and then routed on the CNC router to make a nice, lightweight, round frame. I’m very pleased with … Continue reading
The Second Needed Project for the Machine Shop
While I used the machine shop to make both the power feed and the lifter for the CNC Router, I discovered, mostly doing the lifter, that it was pretty important to have one essential item added to the workshop: The box was made of 3mm acrylic, cut on my CO2 … Continue reading
CNC Router Update
I’ve been enjoying how well and solidly my new CNC Router is performing, but there was one deficiency that, with a new project coming up, I couldn’t live with. The Z travel on the gantry was fairly decent, but I couldn’t use all of it because the whole top transport … Continue reading