Crib – Construction Start
Mark Bronkalla Return to the shop The last few weeks were taken up with vacation and conferences. So there has been no progress on the crib. Teal and I had brought in…
CNC Router
Crib design – final
Completed renderings Today was Jessie’s baby shower. So I had a lot of opportunities to show off the design and gain some consensus on undecided points by 3 generations of…
Baby crib design start
Now that we have a starting point for the design, it is time to start gathering dimensions from the photos. Traditionally, I have done this by printing photos at half…
Baby Crib Project
Baby Crib Project My daughters, Jessie and Elyse, are both due at the end of March 2018. Jessie still needs a crib. So the question of: “What is the next…
Dresser drawers part 2
Lessons learned With the first batch of the top drawers out of the way, it was now time to start on the rest of them. These are bigger, and I…
Dresser project – small drawer dovetails
Initial testing One of the goals when making the CNC router was to be able to do general woodworking joinery including dovetails, sliding dovetails and mortise and tenon joints. The…
3D Printer is Running!
The printer is now running It is roughly assembled (as you can see) and now it is time for fine tuning and making parts for itself. I love it when…
Dresser glue ups – diagonal squaring breakthrough
The dresser frames are now all glued up. As you might expect there is an experience curve here with the last one going most efficiently. I also reached the conclusion…
D-Bot 3D printer frame assembly
The printer frame is built out of V-slot linear rail http://openbuildspartstore.com/v-slot-linear-rail/. This is similar to the 80/20 and Bosch rails I have used on the CNC router but with one…
New 3D printer project
I have not written much about 3D printing. The CNC router had a print head added at the end of the year. This was not what I would call a…