Update on my CNC router build

Don Druckenbrodt, owner of Nite Owl Guitars, built a Solsylva CNC router that's a little bit bigger than mine. He stained his wooden parts instead of painting them like I am. Click on the picture to learn more about his router and to see what he uses it for.

I took a

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Stepper Motors & Drivers for My CNC Router

I’ve been away on vacation which is why MachinistBlog.com has been so stale.  We only went away for one week this year but I always seem to spend the week before running around like crazy getting ready to go and then the week afterwards working like crazy to get caught up at work and with

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CNC Router Build - The Stand

The stand for my Solsylva 25×25-inch CNC router is made from 1×4-inch pine boards. Two of the supports are hinged so you can fold the router down so it takes up less storage space.

Building the stand for my Solsylva 25×25 CNC router was pretty simple.  The hardest part was attaching the

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Casting Lots of Small Parts

I spend about half of my time writing CAM software, and the other half doing product development for a bunch of companies.  Usually my prototypes are one-off, sometimes I have to make lots of them.  I happen to be in the middle of just such a project- I need to make about 50 of these:

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