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well there it is, in all its unpollished, undrilled, allmost done glory, 6 hours of watching the cnc machine it took.

well 6 hours, including 2 power outages, and one broken tool bit due to the machine trying to recover from a power outage.

Besides that it just needs polishing and drilling. il keep you updated.

Bochek

looks great

That looks amazing. If you are going to sell them you should definitely go on mazdaworld and market them to the millenia guys too, if you didnt already plan on that.

im not able to make any more untill late september. (unless i buy my own cnc machine) witch im looking into.

not only will i be taking orders, but i will make custom ones that say whatever you want them to say, including 2d images ingraved into them.

Bochek

did a bit of draw filing on it, took off the took marks, i think it looks better. Im not sure what pollished will look like tho..

Bochek

Bochek wrote:(unless i buy my own cnc machine) witch im looking into.

Building a CNC machine? You are probably better off buying one...Used ones are around 20-30k. I used to work on indistrial CO2 lasers and CNC machines...For the precision you will want to buy not build.

if you are interested my girlfriends brother in law just built his own cnc machine and its fully functional. im sure if yo were looking to buy, it would be a cheaper way and it could be any size you wanted.

actually ive been recherching this all day, and i think im going to build one, convert a 8" drill press using a milling table and some stepper motors/controllers available on ebay, running EMC software.

Bochek

any group buy possible?

mitmaks wrote:any group buy possible?

well, yes, the question will be when, for sure by this september, but if i get myself a cnc machine going before then, well then, it will be before then.

If a groupe buy does happen you will be able to write whatever you want in it.

Bochek

font required or would you just use some of yours.

you should get a 3d digitizer and make a progm todo all the headwork on a bp or b6d...after the cnc of course

Cy wrote:font required or would you just use some of yours.

if i have it, tell me wich one you want, il send you a 3d image of what it will look like before i cut it, besides that send me the font.

Bochek

well here's where im at, i need a compound table (x and y) axis table. if anyone has one they want to sell me, or knows where i can get one cheeper then ebay with there 150 bucks shipping let me know.

or if you own a machineshop near the toronto area i can work in for a few days let me know, i have some uber machineing skills and i can make the compound table given the machines to do it on.

Bochek

Bochek wrote:well here's where im at, i need a compound table (x and y) axis table. if anyone has one they want to sell me, or knows where i can get one cheeper then ebay with there 150 bucks shipping let me know.

or if you own a machineshop near the toronto area i can work in for a few days let me know, i have some uber machineing skills and i can make the compound table given the machines to do it on.

Bochek

aside from the programming the materials and construction of a 2-axis CNC is quite simple no??

If you used a screw type slide...

Cy wrote:

Bochek wrote:well here's where im at, i need a compound table (x and y) axis table. if anyone has one they want to sell me, or knows where i can get one cheeper then ebay with there 150 bucks shipping let me know.

or if you own a machineshop near the toronto area i can work in for a few days let me know, i have some uber machineing skills and i can make the compound table given the machines to do it on.

Bochek

aside from the programming the materials and construction of a 2-axis CNC is quite simple no??

If you used a screw type slide...

Its actually a 3 axis machine and i need a lathe and vertical milling machine to make the parts for the table, once i have a useable 3 axis milling machine the whole cnc conversion is wicked easy.

Bochek