Making Marshmallow Crossbow Pistols
Another long, picture filled how-to. This time I am making crossbow pistols that shoot mini-marshmallows. Click on the more link if you want to follow along.
Category: Shapeoko Mill
Adventures in Work Holding
One of the problems when using a CNC mill is holding on to the work piece. It needs to be securely fastened to the machine in some manner, but the method of fas...
Circle-Diamond-Square Redux
If you have been following along, you know that I’m trying to get my ShapeOko to be fairly accurate. One of the tests I’m using is the Circle-Diamon...
ShapeOko Rebuild
Because I apparently don’t have enough projects, I decided that I needed to rebuild my ShapeOko using the newly designed motor mount plates. 🙂 (Caution, l...
Milling Ruger Mk III Grips
I just finished milling up a set of Ruger Mk III pistol grips and took some photos along the way. This is actually the second set I have made, but this is the f...
Bad bearing in my trim router
I was all set to do some more work with my ShapeOko tonight, but when I turned on the Rigid trim router it made a terrible noise… Sounded like a bad beari...
ShapeOko Limit Switches Update
The limit switches seemed to be working great, and I was loving being able to home the machine and not have to re-zero my work all the time. I even got some wor...
Limit Switches for the ShapeOko
I don’t know why it took me so long, but I finally got around to installing the limit switches on my ShapeOko. I bought the switches when I bought the mac...
Making Smith and Wesson Revolver Grips
I got a request from a friend to see if I could make some Smith and Wesson revolver grips for him. I told him “sure, send me a set and I’ll see what...
More ‘production’ work on the ShapeOko
I guess I neglected to post about putting the top profile on the 1911 grips. I came up with a good tool chain – I drew the part as a solid model in Autode...