Popular Post jussi Posted March 18, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 It's from Onefinity. Journeyman model with their QCW frame. 48 x 32 cutting capacity. I bought an aftermarket screen and dust collection. Both of which I'm very happy with especially the DC. I flattened the spoilboard which makes ALOT of dust if there's no DC (damhik) and it got 95% of the dust. So far all I've done is flatten the spoilboard put in a grid and added some numbers. As you can see I had to re do the numbers because I screwed up with alignment. Plus when I did the dog holes I forgot to put diameter instead of radius for the hole size and the first 2 holes came out twice as big. Oh well it is a SPOIL board. Otherwise dead on accurate as you can see from the woodpecker square. It's what you expect from a cnc but it still surprised me. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 I'm looking forward to seeing some projects from that new toy! Should be a lot of fun to use. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jussi Posted May 1, 2022 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 Here is a my first try at 3D carving. The design isn't mine. I wish I was talented enough. I bought it off etsy. Took 28 hours not including the first failed attempt which took 14 hours. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnG Posted May 1, 2022 Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 Looks like it came out well! What happened on the first attempt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted May 1, 2022 Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 That is really beautiful, certainly not bad for just you second go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jussi Posted May 2, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 Thanks for the compliments. When I checked the estimate carving time initially using the standard settings for that bit I was impatient and double the pass over which cut the time in half but that also ended up with the half as good results. So I re carved everything with the nominal settings and it came out much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted May 2, 2022 Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 I had no earthly idea that it took that long! Does the machine shut itself off at intervals to let it cool down or is that not a problem? Beautiful piece! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jussi Posted May 2, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 Well I shut it off at night (mostly to be courteous to my neighbors) so I run it for 11-12 hours at a time. I'm sure it will wear life of the router sooner than if it were used intermittently like a normal hand held router would be. But at around $100 per router I figure it's not too bad. Plus I'm not doing 3D carvings all the time. So most of the time the projects will run a few minutes to maybe 1-2 hours max. Ideally I would a water cooled spindle but I'm still debating on which one to get. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted May 2, 2022 Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 Even without liquid cooling, a brushless spindle motor should last longer and run quieter. That carving came out very nice. I suspect 3D carves are the most demanding on the machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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