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Post by art3427 on Mar 26, 2010 8:19:41 GMT -6
Anyone here own one of those CNC carvers? I'm wondering how they would do for carving a "butt print" in wood chair seats?
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Post by Stretch on Mar 26, 2010 8:27:55 GMT -6
A CNC router would probably do a wonderful job of carving out a chair seat. However, it would be a pretty expensive investment to do what is a relatively simple operation that can easily and quickly be done with an angle grinder with a flap disk on it.
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Post by Ruffnek on Mar 26, 2010 9:02:39 GMT -6
Hal Taylor now uses a CNC machine to carve out the seats in his rocking chairs.
Unless one were doing a great many of them for a very good price (as Hal does) I can't see it being an economical purchase. Like Stretch said, an angle grinder with a flap disk will do it in about an hour. It's messy but fast.
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Post by Leo Voisine on Mar 27, 2010 6:45:57 GMT -6
Anyone here own one of those CNC carvers? I'm wondering how they would do for carving a "butt print" in wood chair seats? art About the cheapest CNC router that would give you the capability of carving out the seat would be the Rockler Shark at around $3000.00 After that you will need 3D programming ability. V-Carve Cut3D would do it with the ability to import a model to program to. Cost is around $500 for the programming software. Then you will need a model to import into the Cut3D software. There are a number of CAD modeling packages out there to make the model. Modeling packages with 3D capabilities start at araound $1,000-$2,000 So that is all on the lower end, Prices go UP, REAL fast from there. I would suggest the angle head grinder. |
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