To do or not to do, can it be done? MK4 drill steel.

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My son builds custom wood furniture and bends some exotic hardwoods. He's figured out how to bend ipe, usually considered unbendable but requires some very stout jigs. Ipe is one of the densest woods in the world in fact it sinks in water. He had one customer bend it for his swimming pool border and make a very elaborate deck. He also wants to be able to mill this stuff. It's more like milling aluminum than wood. So we have several cnc opportunities for plasma, drilling, milling, and routing.

One of the first items is to make a few fab/jig tables similar to the one in your video, 12 - 25 mm thick. They will have custom hole patterns not the standard square pattern. I figured since I'm going to build a cnc table why not cover that problem too. Essentially replace the mag drill and take a 12 hour job to half that maybe less. Someone will still have to sit and chip watch. I included a sample of one table idea.

I like your idea for the fab table though we could have some use for it. If this cnc drill table idea doesn't work out I might use your idea and mount a mag drill to your manual gantry for fab tables. It would definitely make positioning easier. Thanks for the ideas.