Recycled wood

[mikeacg]

I got an old Cherry TV cabinet from a friend of mine. She tried to sell it and no one was interested so she gave it to me for the wood (FREE!). Talk about a great source of dry, ready-to-use lumber for our machines. Don't forget to check it with a metal detector before you start milling it!

http://www.baconwood.com/images/OPCraw.jpg
Right off the machine with no sanding.

http://www.baconwood.com/images/OPCDone.jpg
20" diameter in 3/4" thick cherry.

http://www.baconwood.com/images/SpelzNavy1.jpg
Modeled in Aspire 2.5 using a vector drawing.

http://www.baconwood.com/images/SpelzNavy2.jpg
14" diameter - 3/4" thick.

The cabinet sides were about 22" wide and almost 5' long so there are a lot more pieces in it yet!

Mike

[Mick Martin]

Very nice work, could you provide some tooling information and machining time.

Mick

[Joey Jarrard]

So big Mike your breaking that stinger in good. What do ya think of the little yellow beast so far? The carvings look great, and great find on that wood.

[james mcgrew]

excellent !!!

[mikeacg]

Mick,

Presbyterian plaque
Fairly simple design
90V bit - 9:46
1/4" end mill - 21:00

Navy plaque
1/2" end mill - 10:17
1/8" tapered ball (10% stepover) - 3:02:49
60V bit - 9:40
1/4" end mill - 1:32 (cut out)

Joey,

I am loving my little Stinger! I can't find the file to cut the little guy out but I want to use him on the enclosure I am building (to cut down on the dust and noise).
I did manage to stop it dead when I used a piece of oak on the recoil with the automatic rounding path. Too much bite so I will remember to do that manually in the future so I can adjust the depth of cut and speed.
I've been so busy playing I haven't taken any pictures of the machine yet so I apologize for not yanking the blue machine from my all my websites...
[embar]

Jim,

Coming from you, that is high praise!
[da man]

I found out yesterday that my motorcycle sold so Aspire 3 will be my next purchase and things will get more interesting!!