Yes I agree. I did a couple of things without a bit and in the air just to get the hang of things. Last night I failed miserably but learned a lot. I was going to make a bowl. Should have used the my 1/4 bowl bit instead of the 3/4 one. Only 3 inch but .7 deep and did not offset enough  for the 1/4 down cut to cut it out and leave a wall. Oh well…. Live and learn.

Such are the adventures and perils of learning to use a new machine.  I was pretty lucky having had years of experience using routers and router tables and making jigs/templates to get creative using them before I bought my first CNC.   A router was the first tool I owned.  A Christmas gift from my parents.   Teaching creative furniture design students with two other talented professors I was who they referred their students to when it appeared a router might be a tool and a path to a solution for making a part.  That continued once a CNC was added to the college shop (identical to the one I had at home) and I became the CNC wizard to refer to.  

4D

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5 hours ago, KevTN said:

Oh well…. Live and learn.

Well, live anyway

5 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Well, live anyway

Well I am addicted to breathing…

 

 

5 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

58 minutes ago, KevTN said:

Well I am addicted to breathing…

 

 

Watch out or you'll also become addicted to your CNC.

Other than maybe for dark chocolate, I find I I have no addictions.  None about which tool I use to make projects.  Yes, I've had a few obsessions along the way, but am apparently not prone to addictions.  My obsessions tend to be about a challenge to find the best (or only) way to make complex parts.  If the CNC becomes part of the solution I'll use it.   Often the bandsaw or the table saw or the drum sander or the...  becomes the tool that leads to a solution.   What my Probotix CNC became was a test bed for fixtures installed into its frame to let me do otherwise impossible CNC cut joinery or difficult cuts on furniture parts already made.  I'm on the hunt for project photos of the tapered holes in offset laminated curves to hold dog food and water dishes on a student's project.  Cut the tapered holes after the curves were made using a circular array of fluting cuts while the curves spanned between end and center rails on the CNC frame. Student was surprised and delighted that the bowls fit perfectly after she assembled the feeding stand for her tall dogs. 

4D

Yah 4D - but you're not normal.  Doesn't take much to captivate us mere mortals.

I've seen your CNC work HJ.  Not sure you are a mere mortal any more.   

 

For captivation I prefer watching my 3D printers work.  Not as noisy as the CNC.  The penalty for not watching them print is that inevitably they'll screw up when not watched. An inverse additive process from the subtractive process of carving a solid wood blank down to make something desirable from it.  I've had enough experience using my CNC that I can trust it to finish a job without me in the room. From my home office I can hear when the job stops to return and unclamp/shut down/clean up.

4D 

On 4/15/2023 at 7:56 PM, honesttjohn said:

Watch out or you'll also become addicted to your CNC.

True!!

Some more playing today…Going to fill the pops with epoxy at some point. The catch all isn’t perfect but getting there