April 5, 20206 yr A friend of my was recently redoing a bartop in his man cave and ask me to do some CNC work on the slab he was going to use. The slab was 10’ long, 27” wide and 2” thick. This was one big slab to slide into my CNC. Since there was no straight edge I had to establish some type of straight line to be able to line up the three images he wanted cut into the slab. With a center set, I could then line up the different images on the center line to start the milling. First up was “Blue Blood” on the left side. Then slide this monster through the machine to center the next part. And then one one more move to put the last image into the slab. I used vCarve Desktop to do each section. A screen shot shot of the wild cat. So so he was going to pour Blue Epoxy in each of the images and sand it flat then pour self leveling clear Epoxy over the whole top. He sent me a video of the finished bar top. I did a screenshot so excuse the play button in the middle of the picture. Turned out really nice, he should enjoy this for a long time.
April 5, 20206 yr 7 hours ago, John Moody said: Turned out really nice, he should enjoy this for a long time. I agree with both of those John. Glad to have you back and posting up some of your work.
April 5, 20206 yr Author 50 minutes ago, Cal said: I agree with both of those John. Glad to have you back and posting up some of your work. Thanks Cal! I love this site and it’s the only woodworking site I visit. Just haven’t gotten to do much woodworking lately and I’ve spent a lot of time just trying to learn the software and CNC machine. Finally getting to where I can do something’s with it.
April 5, 20206 yr That's a large piece and a great job on the bar top, John! My CNC is large enough to do that but I don't have room on either end to slide that through. Nicely done. David
April 18, 20206 yr John, what a wonderful job sir! So glad to see another venue of work opening up for you!
April 19, 20206 yr Fantastic job! Almost a perfect example of thinking outside the box (OK, the CNC bed)! 4D
May 27, 20206 yr Author On 4/18/2020 at 7:42 AM, BillyJack said: Was anything used to support the crack? Dog bones,etc? I’m not sure what he did with that part after he picked it up. I just did the CNC work on it.
May 28, 20206 yr Popular Post It's kinda scary. A lot of work has been done that looks good, yet a few years later it's in the trash. Hopefully it lasts forever.... When I worked at Jakobe Furniture the painters name was Jason. He couldn't build it but he understood wood movement. If I made a live edge and he wasn't 100% satisfied with stability he would reject it. When you have a good finisher working beside you quality is at its best... Edited May 28, 20206 yr by BillyJack
July 4, 20206 yr Author On 5/28/2020 at 10:45 AM, BillyJack said: It's kinda scary. A lot of work has been done that looks good, yet a few years later it's in the trash. Hopefully it lasts forever.... When I worked at Jakobe Furniture the painters name was Jason. He couldn't build it but he understood wood movement. If I made a live edge and he wasn't 100% satisfied with stability he would reject it. When you have a good finisher working beside you quality is at its best... Yeah I can only hope that it last forever. The young man that contracted it does quite a bit of woodworking and seemed knowledgeable. I was only contracted for the CNC cutout work. I preformed the scope of work given to me, got paid and he left with it to do the rest of the work. I can’t speak to what was or wasn’t done after it left me. Either way it will last a lot longer than some and probably shorter than some others.
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