Ron, very beautiful work On Tuesday, February 4, 2014, <ronkir...@aol.com> wrote:
> Hi All > I haven't been involved with the group in quite awhile. I attended Andy's > CNC lecture at the Baltimore woodworker show. I was very impressed with the > capabilities of CNC and VCarePro/Aspire software. The software is very user > friendly. > I wanted to ask the CNC people in the group if they every made a > segmented bowl using CNC capabilities. > I make segmented bowls because with solid bowls a lot of the wood lies on > the floor in the form of shavings. I use a lot of expensive woods therefore > shavings has to be at a minimum. The other reason for segmenting is the > various designs one can incorporate in the bowl rings. I have > attached pictures of a few of the bowls I've made and turned on my > Shopsmith. These bowls are 14 1/2" in diameter and 9 3/4"deep. One could > add a ring at a time and turn each ring and continue this process until the > top ring is added and turn. Or one could add all the rings and turn > the assembled bowl at once. In either case the capability to handle a 14 > 1/2"' diameter and depth of 9 3/4" would be required. I looked into using > the manual Legacy ( I have a 1000EX) to make the rings. I would have to > have the ring mounted on the rotary and rotate below the lower rails. > However, the height of the feature ring ( the one with the complex design > at the center of the bowl ) is around 2 1/2" to 3". The only way I could do > it was to have taller elevation legs. Legacy doesn't make them anymore. Now > with CNC mounted in a gantry one could turn a ring at least at 14 1/2" or > greater. The circular cutting can be performed with small advances in x,y > for greater accuracy. Or will a rotary table still be required to get a > smooth surface? By the way if I were to get CNC, bowl making would not be > my only reason. What is the limitation on the Z axis travel with the > gantry?( What is the deepest bowl that could be turned). I would be > interested in your comments. > Regards, > Ron K. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','legacy-ornamental-mills%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com');> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
