Pig farmer building a wooden CNC. Crikey

[Bluebird]

After squaring the frame up I locked the table box into place with an additional 8 inch band of 3/4 inch plywood on top of the birch plywood, gluing and screwing it way more than necessary. You will find that everything on this build will be overkill but movement is not an option.



Choose to 45 the plywood for the rails and epoxy the aluminum channel instead of just laying it horizontal with one edge up and one down. felt there was more surface area.

Once the epoxy set the excess aluminum was planed off with a thickness planer.





Created a channel in the bottom of the box for dust collection. will drill a 4 inch hole in the bottom and mount and flanged gate valve.



Rough framing on the table almost done, just the top to complete with dust collection holes all the way around.



Top of the table getting the holes cut. sure would be nice to have a cnc router to do this.



Finished the duct holes, glued and screwed down plus added 1×2’s the the main supports to flush em up with the oak plywood banding and leaving a channel to run wires for stepper motors limit switches and lights in the top.



I decided just for cosmetics to paint the dust collection holes before the Formica went down, had the paint wouldn't of made a special trip to town for it. lol



Stay tuned, more to come. Cheers!