Making things, at last

Thursday, April 10. 2014

At last ! Making things…

The very first real object made on ShapeOko : a nameplate for my friend Klaus-Dieter. For his workshop.

I've made a prototype spindle holder for my Kress 800W spindle.

It seems rigid enough, but the gantry overhang is a big downside : I loose nearly 10cm of Y-axis…

Never mind for now. At least I can make things.

The wood for the nameplate is age-old (over 100years) Chestnut : a piece of old floorboard. The strange marks on the right just inside and outside of the frame are 'stupid' errors : I used cheapo G-clamps to hold the work down - and they were'nt screwed-down properly! Ooops, as they say. Obviously I'm just too embarassed to leave that in the video…

Here's the video of ShapeOko in action. You can just make-out the error-marks at the beginning.

The toolpath doesn't look very optimised, but I've noticed that it IS fairly optimised for milling : all of the cuts are in the correct direction with respect to the milling-tool bit rotation. I currently generate the G-Code for Grbl by using a fantastic little extension (GCodetools Extension) to InkScape. Enjoy.

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Nice cut ! Is the depth (Z axis) a constant ? It seems that there are some deeper imprints. (probably where the bit first descends into the wood.) Good job !

#1 Douglas on 2014-04-10 16:47 (Reply)

c’est toujours un grand moment les premières réalisations bravo Glenn A tout bientot

#2 Olivier on 2014-05-03 07:14 (Reply)

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