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Here’s another, somewhat more complicated solid wood machining project I completed a while back. In order to get a nice kitchen cabinet job for a contractor I had worked with before, I had to match some curved mullions for several glass panel doors which the client had fallen in love with from a competitor’s catalog. … Continue reading >>> More Solid Wood Machining – Curved Mullions As we use our CNC’s we learn that we can assign virtually any position to any axis at most any time. We usually have a reason to do this, like a special purpose jig, or room for clamps for relocating the X & Y axis, but we routinely reassign the position of the Z for … Continue reading >>> A Theory On Relativity Our quest to create the perfect solid wood raised panel door on a ShopBot raised many questions. We began by measuring the thickness of our current door panels to determine the needed depth of cut and create a plan for two part jig system to hold the door panels in place while … Continue reading >>> Making a Perfect Door, II: Construction and Reprogramming Well, I finally took the plunge. A little over a year ago I reached the point where drilling and cutting full sheets of material was pretty routine, but having to manually draw, nest and toolpath the sheets full of parts was so time consuming – and occasionally error-prone – that it was becoming obvious that … Continue reading >>> Cabinetmaking Software ShopBot and Alibre: Although ShopBot doesn’t officially sell or support Alibre Design software, we’ve used it in-house for many years. All ShopBots are modeled and designed in Alibre and we are big fans of Alibre specifically and parametric design software in general. So when Kirk and Connie Kelsey, woodworkers, designers, and Alibre experts, suggested a … Continue reading >>> ALIBRE – PART TO PRODUCTION Occasionally when assembling our cabinets we need to install pocket hole screws for a blind screwed connection. Cutting the screw pockets on the ShopBot is a natural progression from cutting the panels and then moving them to a pocket machine. Commercial pocket machines use an angled drill bit that plunges laterally into the material face. … Continue reading >>> Adding Pocket Hole Joinery to your Cabinet Panels While waiting for our shipping date to arrive, my son and I, like most new users, agonized over all the details of electrical, vacuum, placement and layout of all the items necessary to running our Bot. We probably read every post on the TalkShopBot Forum concerning vacuum going back to 2005. After asking a few … Continue reading >>> My 4 Motor Vacuum Setup Sheet goods can be awkward and heavy. Depending on your shop configuration, manually loading even moderately heavy sheets alone can be cumbersome at best. This ShopBot Salutation is a technique which, for me, is the easiest, fastest, and safest way of manually handling and loading sheet goods. Everyone is different and you know your … Continue reading >>> Loading Heavy Sheet Goods aka the ShopBot Salutation! One of the things that we always had in mind for our ShopBot was to use its automation capabilities to replace some of the operations that we had previously outsourced. Due to increasing lead times and decreasing quality, our first chore was to start in house manufacturing of the solid Maple Dovetail Drawers we use … Continue reading >>> Dovetail and Mortise Jig A plenum is little more than a few slots cut into a piece of material, but there are some options to consider when designing one for the first time. Start out your design with a size that is very close to your finish zone size so that any resizing is minimal before cutting. The general … Continue reading >>> A PVC Vacuum Table Part 2: A little more on Plenum Design… |
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