Tool diameter accuracy

[Neale]

I've had enough frustration and I'm working on the design of the Mk2 which will be welded steel, ballscrews, and profile rails. I'll take the electronics and motors across from the current machine as I reckon that they'll do nicely (and it's why I overspecced them in the first place). In the meantime, I'm doing some interesting projects with some local artists/craftspeople who are more interested in artistic interpretation than accuracy! I spent some time today with a friend who wants me to turn a bunch of photographs of her daughter's head into a full-size 3D version routed into a bundle of wooden sticks. It's the kind of project that no-one doing this kind of thing professionally would even look at

(and yes, my machine looks somewhat like that one. Oh, to have a machine that will take drawings and turn them into fitting components without three false starts while I calibrate out the bend!)