Digital Artistry — Meet the Artist: David Myka
Meet the artists from the December 2017 issue How five masterful makers integrate CNC and CAD technology into their woodworking In the December 2017 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine, the...
Digital Artistry — Meet the Artist: Darrell Peart
Meet the artists from the December 2017 issue How five masterful makers integrate CNC and CAD technology into their woodworking In the December 2017 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine, the...
Digital Artistry — Meet the Artist: Curtis Erpelding
Meet the artists from the December 2017 issue How five masterful makers integrate CNC and CAD technology into their woodworking. In the December 2017 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine, the...
Turn Patterns Into Super Story Sticks
I better start off with a warning. If you haven’t already figured it out, I’m kind of a nut about patterns. Long before I owned a CNC, I made hundreds...
Meet Goliath — A Portable Robotic CNC
As the Chinese curse goes, “may you live in interesting times.” Sometimes, “interesting times” is actually a good thing. In the case of CNCs, there are a lot of new...
Easy Entry Digital Woodworking — Preparing Patterns for an Outside CNC Service
In earlier posts in this series, I explained how you can take simple computer drawings and make paper patterns. In my last post, I revealed the process I used for years...
Easy Entry Digital Woodworking – Outsource Perfect patterns
In the first post of this series, I explained the process that I use to make paper patterns for parts. Simply put, output your design to your printer, use the...
No-Cost, Low-Cost, Easy-Entry Digital Woodworking — Part One
It always starts with a design Digital woodworking uses digitally controlled tools in your workshop as an addition to hybrid and handtools. Most often this means owning and operating a...
CAD is the Secret Sauce
The very idea of digital woodworking is something new and strange to a lot of woodworkers, so it’s only natural there are a lot of questions. For many, the big question...
Preview: The Shapeoko XL CNC
A Desktop size CNC at an Entry Level Price One of the questions I’m most often asked is “would you do a review of an affordable CNC?” Up to now,...
CAD to CAM to CNC: Part Seven — Programming a CNC for 3D Carving
My last several posts have been about how the BARN workbench vise chops were designed. In this post, I’ll show you how the CNC was programmed for machining with CAM...
CAD to CAM to CNC: Part Six — 10 Different Vise Chops
In my last few posts, I showed how two different vise chops designs were created for the BARN workbenches. One technique was based on an easy to use 3D CAD...
