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Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!
Post a photo of the last thing you made...
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Or chasing the last pickled onion.That'll get the last bit of jam out of the corner of the jar!
Is it ambidextrous in this progressive world we now live in?
Very nice.
Very nice Alasdair. How thick is it? I guess a lot less sanding is required after the CnC than after, for example, the scrollsaw.
Strictly speaking not the last thing I ever made but seeing Alasdair’s whale reminded me of a jigsaw I made quite a few years back.
Cut on the scroll saw from a single beech board with a ply back. Painted with colron wood dyes, Excuse the dust.
Cut on the scroll saw from a single beech board with a ply back. Painted with colron wood dyes, Excuse the dust.
Thanks Andy - about 20m thick - the cnc I have (Carvera Air) will happily do 50mm plus (you have to allow for the height of the milling bit etc.) but this is probably my happy place for this purpose - I am not aiming to do bowls - I have a lathe...
There is still sanding - but that is a learning curve - the main sanding is that you can have frizzy bits around the top / bottom surface edges, depending on whether you use an up-cut / down-cut / compression bit - often these just rub off, or a quick few seconds on the belt sander (always on 240g in my workshop) and they are generally gone... the sides tend to be almost polished in comparison to the scroll saw.
It is though still a learning curve - you can set it to do an end routine after a first exercise in roughing out material - so that you get rid of the bulk quickly and then do a fine polishing around with a different bit afterwards... lots of options exist.
really like that - and a good example of how precise a scroll saw can be in expert hands. There are in my view three ways of doing this (I have all three and play with them):
- Scroll saw - takes longer, is manual, so less identically repeatable / more prone to mistakes; but gives a very fine kerf or cut line - allowing for a close fit of the final pieces... will cut quite deep pieces - pretty cheap bit of kit / no extraction or fire risk!
- Laser - computer controlled, so very repeatable / narrow kerf so good tight fitting puzzles, but it is difficult to avoid burn marks esp. on the edges. Come in a variety of types and power, so range in price from cheapish to expensive. Cheap ones are mainly for engraving - the more expensive can cut wood, mine is 20W diode - it can cut up to about 10mm of oak. I have done a number of puzzles with my laser, but the burn marks do spoil the end result a bit.
- CNC - very clean finish / very repeatable / sits there and gets on with the making... however, the kerf is huge - so to cut out e.g. the whale above, or the pieces below, there i a c. 3mm cutter going round the outside of the drawn piece to cut it out - so you would have a minimum gap between pieces which is quite obvious. This can be negated by moving the pieces apart and then effectively you could run around the outisde of each and get absolute precision.
The swan above did this latter approach and the pices fitted together perfectly - the image below I think there is a problem with the 3rd party files as it was not a perfect fit until after a lot of sanding...
Dr.Al
Old Oak
How about wire EDM for the ultimate fit?!
The equipment is probably out of the price range of your average home workshop though!
GIF stolen from here: https://wackycompany.com/product/electrical-discharge-machining-edm-puzzle-pieces/
The equipment is probably out of the price range of your average home workshop though!
GIF stolen from here: https://wackycompany.com/product/electrical-discharge-machining-edm-puzzle-pieces/
Tempting - and stunning, but as you say - a bit pricey!How about wire EDM for the ultimate fit?!
The equipment is probably out of the price range of your average home workshop though!
GIF stolen from here: https://wackycompany.com/product/electrical-discharge-machining-edm-puzzle-pieces/
Thanks Alasdair, I am no expert though.
I am left wondering what those animals are up to on your last photo.
I am left wondering what those animals are up to on your last photo.
Dr.Al
Old Oak
just hanging
Had a play with nesting animals that were exactly the same - when cut it is too tight a fit - played around and a shrinking of both pieces by 0.4mm works well… it gives the equivalent of a kerf - less than you would get if you used the 3mm mill to cut the two apart, so a tight but comfortable fit…
