I was recently assigned project work in St Thomas, USVI. It was an experience to say the least. I arrived mid January, 2019 and stayed until late April. I was there for work so I did not take any time for any exotic activities. I did take the ferry to ( more… )
The McDougall pattern with a sharper bit. More detail!
To follow up on my drawing post, I loaded a scrap piece of chalkboard stock onto my CNC. I changed the tool to a trim router with a 1/8″ milling bit. The process started with Google Image Search. I found a quality black and white image and converted it to ( more… )
I have been working on a project with a lot of detail and wanted to look at it before committing to cutting. I created the outline from a Google image search using Inkscape, saving the file as .svg. I imported into Estlcam and configured the parts. The line is light. ( more… )
Here is a short video with an overview of my CNC machine and the electronics.
Beautiful lake and surrounding area! December, 2018.
My friend Dick and his son show how archery hunting in Idaho is done. Follow the video and subscribe to his channel. It is not easy as you can see, it takes a lot of planning and skill. Great job Dick!
This is the pattern I cut out, and here is a link to the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ofQO8Ll3ic 14 gauge steel, 30 amps, 45 PSI, 140 ipm. I pulled the image from the internet, transformed it into a bitmap with Inkscape, loaded it to Estlcam where I sized it and configured the ( more… )
I recently consolidated a few old YouTube videos into a single JoBear channel.
I bought my first plasma cutter 2 years ago. Once I got it out of the box I knew I was going to have a lot of fun learning and creating metal transformation techniques. I also learned I needed some motion control over the machine to create predictable and consistent ( more… )