MachinistBlog.com » CNC http://www.machinistblog.com Plans, projects and how-to's for home machinists Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Update on my CNC router build http://www.machinistblog.com/update-on-my-cnc-router-build/ http://www.machinistblog.com/update-on-my-cnc-router-build/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:10:42 +0000 Rob http://www.machinistblog.com/?p=6129 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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Building the stand for my Solsylva 25×25 CNC router was pretty simple.  The hardest part was attaching the

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I’ve started building a CNC router from plans.  It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time now but I couldn’t decide how big a router to build or who had the best design.  This article describes why I want one and why I finally picked David Steele’s 25×25-inch dual leadscrew

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I wonder if we’ll be able to buy an affordable hobbyist version of one of these machines in 10 years?

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