inspiration thread

[njhussey]

Cheers Barry, I might do but I'm building 4 planes simultaneously so I wouldn't bet on it!!

Pic below is my interpretation on an Ugly Stick (I'm calling it "AnotherStick") that I'm building. I'm making the sides in 2 pieces (a splined joint) and with tabs so that the formers just slot in therefore doing away with building over a plan. I'm just playing with the wing ribs at the moment as I keep re-designing them...

[kingcreaky]

This is precisely what we need to see more of gents!. Thanks for posting, Hopefully this thread will motivate those who are either thinking about a build, or have builds part started.

Keep the pictures coming, there are so many names on here who appear to not make anything at all with their machines . Maybe like me, they prefer making machines, to actually using them

Im sure ive posted before, but if I havent here are some pics I have on this laptop











miss my big router. Once this mill is working, Im going to make another upright 8x4 for myself.

Matt

[njhussey]

Nice stuff there Matt, wish I had a bigger Router, maybe Router No3 in the future will be an 8x4...

More bits I was cutting this morning, more to do at lunch plus some kits that have sold on eBay....

[kingcreaky]

now that is quality.

Like how your tool speed is so much slower than your machine speed. so the rapids are really exaggerated.

Also, love the join in the material on that plane

matt

[njhussey]

now that is quality.

Like how your tool speed is so much slower than your machine speed. so the rapids are really exaggerated.

Also, love the join in the material on that plane

matt

Cheers Matt

I've not got the rapids set too high 7500 mm/min I think, had it at 15000 on testing and it really whizzed I can't have the tool feed much higher as the quality suffers, it's even worse in balsa!!

I was inspired to do the join by remembering Chris Foss Middle Phases have the very same thing, mine was done to cut down on Royal Snail postage costs to keep it within the small parcel size

[routercnc]

Hi Neil,

Good to see some liteply being cut - very satisfying to plug bits together using the tabs etc. and have it build almost in your hands. I know what you mean about mixing the inside profile and outside profile in CAM toolpaths. So easy to do and very annoying!

It's been a while since I cut that material (more aluminium recently, plus some MDF and thick plywood) but my cutting speeds were much faster than that and quality was OK. Worth experimenting a bit more? I don't have much time in the workshop so time is precious.

What cutter is that? I use a 2 'blade' TCT 3mm super cheap e-bay bit and it works fine.

Thanks

[njhussey]

Hi Neil,

Good to see some liteply being cut - very satisfying to plug bits together using the tabs etc. and have it build almost in your hands. I know what you mean about mixing the inside profile and outside profile in CAM toolpaths. So easy to do and very annoying!

It's been a while since I cut that material (more aluminium recently, plus some MDF and thick plywood) but my cutting speeds were much faster than that and quality was OK. Worth experimenting a bit more? I don't have much time in the workshop so time is precious.

What cutter is that? I use a 2 'blade' TCT 3mm super cheap e-bay bit and it works fine.

Thanks

Barry.....sped it up a bit....this better?!