My cnc'd bench top

[galwaydude18@gmail.com]

I made this from plain MDF. Its my very first CNC project.

 

[VW mick]

Cool nice one .do you have a CNC in your shop?

You had better get the iron back in the house before the wife finds out

 

[jmbfestool]

Big bench.

You want to reduce the radias on those finger joints.

Also the edge doesn't look sharp did you use a upwards cutter?

Best use a compression cutter clean cut both sides.

Here is a close up shot of a box I made using finger joint method using a 9.5mm compression cutter only.

That's 18mm birch in one pass
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[galwaydude18@gmail.com]

I used a 12.7mm compression cutter that why I couldn't reduce the radius. Its the only straight cutter we have for MDF at the min :-(

I like a big bench for assembly and having a place to set tools onto while I'm at it

 

[jmbfestool]

As your first project though pretty good.

I didn't dare go into full sheets on my first projects I played with off cuts.

This was my first project on my Cnc

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[galwaydude18@gmail.com]

No unfortunaly I don't have a CNC in my shop. Its in a guys workshop that I sub most of my work off. I'm going to be making the shop fits for him from now on and running the CNC as well.

 

[galwaydude18@gmail.com]

Thanks JMB. I draw everything in AutoCAD and import it into the vcarve software. Its a nice software to use and relativly easy to figure out as well. Iv never used a CNC before so its going good so far

 

[jmbfestool]

I used a 12.7mm compression cutter that why I couldn't reduce the radius. Its the only straight cutter we have for MDF at the min :-(

I like a big bench for assembly and having a place to set tools onto while I'm at it

I have a 12mm cutter but never us it to big I think best with 9.45 big enough to take the force small enough for most jobs.

 

[galwaydude18@gmail.com]

Cool we got the bit from LMT. That's what they recommended us to use.

 

[joiner1970]

I'm planning on building one this week. Picked up a pair of the dewalt saw horses today to build it on. Not sure if I will cut all the holes or just do 3 for now to use for butting the rail up to.

 

[galwaydude18@gmail.com]

Have you a CNC joiner1970?

 

[joiner1970]

No I'd love one

 

[joiner1970]

Got my 20mm cutter through today , made up a jig and routed away. I doubt it's perfect but it's the best I could do. Just used a 30mm forstner in pillar drill to make the jig. Then drilled 2 x 20mm holes to drop dogs into the previous set of holes to line up for the next set.

I was surprised how often I had to clean the cutter, burnt a couple of holes but all in all it came out well.

 

[galwaydude18@gmail.com]

Nice one joiner1970. What are the yellow things under your router?

 

[joiner1970]

Nice one joiner1970. What are the yellow things under your router?

Packers the guide Bush on the of 1010 sticks out 7mm and the piece of scrap I used for the jig is 6mm so had to slip 1mm packers under the router.

 

[Doug S]

How did we manage before plastic packers were invented, so many uses. My wife tells everyone that our house is built out of them, it's a victorian school we converted and I got through packets of the things.

Doug

 

[joiner1970]

Another pic with a 50mm edging added to stiffen it up , just gotta give the edge a sand with my rotex when the  glue has had time to set.

 

[jmbfestool]

Sorry to throw the thread but what's happening with FOG?

This is how it's showing on my screen
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[sae]

Ditch your iPhone, problem solved.

 

[jmbfestool]

It's sooo bad!!
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