My first attempt at a complete product

[Myshadowboxes]

Well here it is, finally. I say that and it has only been what a few days since I got some of my bits. Still waiting on more to arrive. But this is my first attempt at why I purchased my machine. The picture to the far right is what I have been doing by hand. All the pieces have been cut out, routered, and then glued back together. The new way will kinda be like the one on the left. I say kinda because I am still going to have to glue 4 pieces together and that would be the bottome right and left wing, and then the top. My wood is not wide enough to do it in one solid piece. The other difference is the one on the far right is about 2 1/2 feet long and then one on the left is about 10 inches.

Josh, Joey... I realy do appreciate the help, I know I am a pain and ver impatient at times. But I truly could not have done this without Jims help. Jim, you have been there from the very begining and I salute you.

Anthony

[james mcgrew]

excellent we are on our way now!!!!

practice, practice,practice

did you design that in v carve?

oh and by the way, we are all a pain in the beginning!!

jim

[Myshadowboxes]

Yeap, the design was in Varve. It did a few things I didn't like as it carved it out but I will work on those. One thing is at the star, now granted this again is a mini of what the final project will be, but in the star, you can see that it did not cut all the way to the tip of the star. Now I know it did it on purpose due to the diameter of the bit, but where can I find a smaler bit. The one I used was a 1/4 up spiral.

Anthony

[james mcgrew]

need to get a 1/8" spiral bit and a 1/16th move slowly so as not to break bits

hopefully boss rocker will be here soon he has a lot more experience than i at the precision of vcarve!

jim

below are some of bosses work

[james mcgrew]

for bits try here
http://www.southeasttool.com/catalog/pageA.html

[KeithG]

If your material is not wide enough, why don't you glue it up?! We used to make our own raised panel doors and we glued up panels all the time. You'll find the wood is extremely strong at the glue joint. We use Elmer's Carpenters Wood Glue in the yellow. Invest in a couple of bar clamps. It's a lot easier than piecing it together.:)
Keith

[james mcgrew]

once clamped wipe all yellow glue off with water to remove glue, dont just wipe it in untill you cannot see it and think you'll sand it off, you'll get glue spots under your finnish that you will not see untill you put finnish on

jim

[Myshadowboxes]

Ok guys thanks for the help. I have a full shop of lots of equip.

Now the true reason I don't want to glue things up...the grain. The second reason, my planer is only 10 inches. hard to get wood flat larger then that. : )

[james mcgrew]

shadow, we need to show you some wood working tricks!!!

jim

[Myshadowboxes]

I am all ears

[james mcgrew]

hey i am off to church, tell me the sizes of the "blanks" to produce a "front or piece" and what sizes you would like to produce if they were larger

back soon
jim

[Myshadowboxes]

Ok and now here is my second attempt. This time I was working on the MSgt stripe box that I make. And again this is a small version to see if my profiles worked. They did with one exveption... My mill bit was too big and it messed up on the inside bottom. The bit went too far down on the Y axis and took out some of the top of the bottom stripe. I think it will do fine when I actually run it on a big piece of wood. The original should be about 20 X 30 ish... this one is about 7 X 10.

Oh and I can't find my good camera so pictures look like junk

Anthony

[james mcgrew]

you're getting there!!! that actually is a good run and will only improve!!

jim

[PJS]

Anthony, I have a 12" planer but I have a much bigger planer coming soon. It's a 5' x 10' Camaster! I used to plane wood on my old CNC all the time and it worked great. It's the same motion as planing a spoilboard and depending on the bit size, it doesn't take long. By the way, your project looks great!

Paul

[james mcgrew]

anthony, pauls right you can surface with a spoilboard cutter! insert spoilboard cutters are$$$ but a 1.25" mortise bit does the same thing

jim

[Myshadowboxes]

Mortis bit... like the one below I hope. I never thought about using the machine for that. How fast should I set the feed rate? If I go too fast the wood will come out looking like crap right?

Speaking of that... when I cam cutting anything out, what feedrate should I have it set. It is set at 100 but I changed it to 60 for the things I have done so far. Afraid to break more bits... man these things are expensive.

Anthony

[james mcgrew]

i will email everyone a chipload calculator!!

jim

[Myshadowboxes]

You know what makes my CAMaster better then yours, mine is for fun where you guys have to use yours for work. I know... A guy with a $9000 play toy.

Well, here are the things I worked on this past weekend. The one of the cowboy and girl are my folks. Still working on getting that part of this thing worked out. I need to hit the forums a little more on it.

[highoctanecnc]

Anthony,

Nice work!

Josh

[Joey Jarrard]

Great work man keep it up.
Joey

[Myshadowboxes]

Ok, here is the last one for a while. I need to get back to work on making my shadowboxes out of this thing...


Bzzzzzzzz (that is my Stinger)


Anthony

[james mcgrew]

anthony, been real busy on my part how you comming along?

jim

[james mcgrew]

anthony you ready to meet at iwf again? it has been two years!!

look to see you