Show and Tell - let us know what you're doing!

[Kitwn]

My wife is an embroiderer/felt maker. I also earn brownie points by making odds and sods for her use.

Really, this kind of thing just emphasises my point about how useful a CNC router is for fairly ordinary projects - would have taken ages to do something like by hand.

Neale,
Christie used to make beautiful silk and nuno-felted scarves and shawls and played with needle-felting for a while. I even made an animated film with needle felted characters! I'm definitely with you on the brownie-points and you might recognise the joints on the boxes below. The wavy stick is used for decorative weaving.

It can save a lot of hand work doing this stuff on the CNC router, especially if you don't have a range of other machine tools like a table saw for example and we have been known to design stuff on the laptop over a glass of something in the evening and then I can cut the parts next morning. Very civilised!

Magicniner,
I like the engraver holder, very neat. For the benefit of other readers, I bought an engraver tool which already includes the springloaded holder and fits into a 12mm collet. Just remember NOT to start the spindle when using it.

[Neale]

Christie used to make beautiful silk and nuno-felted scarves and shawls and played with needle-felting for a while. I even made an animated film with needle felted characters! I'm definitely with you on the brownie-points and you might recognise the joints on the boxes below. The wavy stick is used for decorative weaving.

It's a good technique - I've made a little set of drawers (toolmaker's cabinet style) to hold cutters and suchlike and the drawers are really easy to assemble and fit the cabinet well enough that they are all interchangeable - no fitting required. For me, though, the technique illustrates an important idea - when faced with an engineering necessity (like the need for these corner fillets) then make it a desirable aesthetic feature and be blatant about it! Reminds me of something I read about the original minis many years ago (cars, not skirts...) Issigonis found that the spot welding machines of the era were too big and clumsy to easily spot weld the usual in-turned flanges between body panels in such a small car. So he turned them outwards and stuck a bit of chrome trim over them to make them a "feature". Dreadful rust traps, of course, but that was a standard feature of just about every car of that period.