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moved in my "new to me" Unisaw into my "new to me" shop and built an out feed table.....so it begins, again. We bought this place in December. Sadly, we had to lease the outbuildings to the seller until his new cabinet shop was complete. It's been a long wait. It's nice to (almost) have...

That looks great! The laser etching is far better than a router could have done.

That is very cool! :rocker: Assuming that is hardwood, there is no way mine can plunge in like that at that rate. Thanks for sharing, now I really meed to get serious about my redesign

nice machine and setup! Thanks for sharing the video! I didn't leave room for my spindle to travel past the end of the table, That's something else to work into the V2.0 lol

Thanks! You must do a lot of mortise and tenons. :bounce: What machine do you use now? Yes, I use a parallel port adapter called UC100. It has been quite good. I was losing communication with my Mach3 p.c., but that went away when I changed to a usb cable fitted with ferite chokes and...

I use a 30+ year old craftsman contractor table saw. It has a cast iron top and wings and a cheap fence that I need to measure every time I lock it down. I have shop built crosscut sleds for 45 and 90 degree cuts and one for cutting splines into miters. There is no need for a high dollar...

WOW, very nice work and a great project!

dovetails are typically done with a router table set up. Finger joints are easy enough on a saw. You can find videos showing exactly how to build a simple finger joint jig as well. As far as the saw goes, most any will work if you put a GOOD blade on it. The real limitation is power. If...

I need to build some better cabinets too. When I get to that project I will include some more of these units that hold H.F. organizers. I have lots of terminal ends, relays, switches, lcd displays.......

As far as advice goes, the plans I ordered are cheap and VERY good for the price. The electronics pages helped me understand how things connect, communicate and function. In 30 days time I went complete cnc virgin to building a working machine. Granted, I consider it hobby grade machine, but...

Thank You! The blueprints came in a PDF. It was around 45 pages in large format 1:1 ratio. I had it printed at a real print shop ($70ish). They included recommended hardware and sources and 2 different possible wiring diagrams/electronics connections. I chose to use a gekio 540 and nema 23...

sure, I can take a look. Vector works best, it's not a lot of trouble to convert a high res line art tho. you can email it to me f you like. [email protected]

Thank you

It took a few projects to get the machine working the way I wanted it to. The CNC stuff is all new to me. After a few adjustments and learning the software a bit, this machine works better than I thought possible...considering I built the darn thing!!!

This is 6 sheets of plywood coated in clear poly. I did alter the plans a bit. I widened the table to 48 in wide and shortened it to 60 in. The guy who designed this built his in MDF, I felt that a premium grade plywood might offer more rigidity.

I had a couple folks ask for more info on my router machine. This idea was presented to me by my brother. He said to me on more than a few occasions that we should build a cnc machine or two once we both retired. I never thought a lot about it. I did a bit of casual research and dreaming...

OK, I will gather some photos and start a thread here somewhere for those interested......thanks ***EDIT Over here is the NEW THREAD Brian

Thanks! I did it with a CNC router I built as an experiment. The experiment worked out better than I expected:thumbup:

I built a frame for my latest project

I just wanted to pop in and say thanks to Machine Punk for this thread. It put a project in my head back when. I finally got around to building something with rivets and will be doing more. Thanks for taking the time to share knowledge!