I started carving lines in my CNC router’s spoilboard to identify vacuum holddown zones. Soon I realized this grid was handy for other things. I could use them to a place a piece of material at a known point on the table. As soon as I had my own machine (without...
I was asked to create a large 2-sided sign for a new local restaurant. I used cedar, a heavy duty steel bracket, the ShopBot CNC router, and half of the other tools in my shop to finish this one.
When I started using CNC routers I had a tendency to stay slow with all of my feed rates. What I’ve learned over the last three years is that in general I was going too slow for the material I was cutting. The main downsides of going too slow are excessive wear...
