What have you made lately?

[byke]

Setup a dado blade and make them from square pieces of 2x4/6/8/whatever and you could knock out a hundred of them in fifteen minutes.

 

[tzrider]

Setup a dado blade and make them from square pieces of 2x4/6/8/whatever and you could knock out a hundred of them in fifteen minutes.

The surfaces that the wedges bear against are 10 degrees off square to match the angle of the wedges. The dado wouldn't produce that. Also, plywood will be stronger and resist splitting as you set the wedges. I set them by hand in the video, but if you needed to clamp harder, you'd tap them in with a mallet, which will produce a lot of force on the jig.

 

[byke]

Ahhh I gotcha. Would still work well as a second set of hands while you screw/staple/whatever a couple pieces together, which I imagine would be the most common usage?

 

[ctwo]

just for grins

 

[byke]

Neat! What's the machine?

 

[ctwo]

Bridgeport BOSS 3. I rebuilt it with Gecko drives and use Mach3.

And that is from the drops you gave Junkie.

 

[byke]

Super cool and wow, so that's only a 2" diameter disc. What end mill did you use?

 

[ctwo]

2 flute HSS 3/64 for cut-out. Carbide scratch engraving bit ground 4 sides to a point. Parted on the lathe.

 

[byke]

Small bit! I'd be curious to hear a bunch of details; rpm, ipm, wet/dry/air, source image and conversion process, etc. If you felt like it of course.

 

[ctwo]

I don't like to push the machine, so run ~3500rpm tops and ~2-8ipm depending on doc for this kind of cut. I usually just brush oil and blow, but have a mist sprayer. I usually G-code manually with various tools like notepad, and Excel to create more complex tool paths with offsets, or I create dxf tool paths and convert. This one I used Scorchworks to process some image files and edited the g-code. The images were created from photos and manipulations in photoshop and illustrator.

 

[byke]

Did the g-code from Scorchworks do a good job, or was there a bunch of manual editing? I swear getting good g-code from an image is an entire career in itself.

 

[ctwo]

I always edit, because the machine will replicate any garbage you give it.

 

[Mike95060]

#spoiledwithagoodmastercamposthere

 

[ctwo]

Yeah I bought master cam off some guy and could not get it to install. It was a little older version. I could always play with Autodesk but like to be offline. It's just a Bridgeport and won't be doing anything all that complex anyway, even with a 4th rotary axis.

 

[byke]

I've got a bootleg copy of x5 and it's pretty great, no dongle and no call home. Bought a bunch of training videos too, it's pretty user friendly.

 

[ctwo]

I was scrolling through photos and found these items a while back.

 

[Beanzy]

Today I made acquaintance with a Stairmaster.

It is a cruel yet necessary machine in my quest to lose my gut.

 

[kiwi_outdoors]

Holders for playing cards or scrabble tiles

Holders for playing cards or scrabble tiles

one set of four made from 3 pieces 2 ft long Walnut 3/4" x 2.5"

used table saw and chopsaw, sandpaper, and hand-rubbed linseed oil.

assembled only with glue.

The slope is 20 degrees

NOTE: the cards are shown in the first version - the final version is half the length and double-deck

 

[byke]

I was scrolling through photos and found these items a while back.

You gonna need to tell us more about this!

 

[180yzfr1]

Done with fingercam