Machinery

pbacot

Very nice. How many polygons? The glass looks very good. Is this a SU rendering plus PS?

Dave R

Thank you. The transparent material is supposed to be acrylic I did a render in KT which was combined with line and face exports from SU. Except for the acrylic, all the other materials were set to white with a bit of shininess applied in KT.

pilou

Seems real!
Does rules are some photos ?

Dave R

Pilou, are you asking about the rules on the machine? If so, no, they are not photos. I drew them in SketchUp and used the drawings to create textures.

cotty

Very nice!

JQL

Very good model and terrific presentation!

pilou

yes this rules!
So you are a purist!

Dave R

Thank you, gentlemen.

@pilou said:

yes this rules!
So you are a purist!

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Not so much a purist. At the time I drew the scales, I didn't have a good image of them so I did what I could do. Probably turned out better than if I had used a photo anyway. Of course now I could go out to my shop and get the scales and scan them to make hi res images of them.

brooklynia373

Very cool. Can you tell us more about how this thing works? It looks like a plunge router set up with x and y axis movement. But how does the work piece get held? Whats the hand crank for? It almost looks like it could be used like a machinists lathe.

HornOxx

I needed a few seconds until I checked, that you arn´t showing us a picture of a machine that you want to buy, but a rendering instead. (Yes, the rulers are awesome!)

Dave R

Tom, in this arrangement, the work, perhaps a table leg, is held between the green headstock on the right and the tail stock on the left. The headstock can be rotated with the crank on the right and it has indexing stops, which if used, allow for doing things like cutting facets or flutes.

The "lathe" attachment is mounted on a sliding bar that can be moved left and right with the crank on the left. The attachment can also be mounted so one end is higher than the other to allow for cutting tapers.

There are other work holding options as well and the machine can be set up to cut dovetails, box joints, mortises and tenons and any number of other sorts of things. I also make dowels on mine.

And cut tapered sliding dovetails as on the leg for an office chair.

@Hornoxx, no, it's not a machine I'm looking to buy. I have one with all the bells and whistles already. And thank you on the scales. They were actually quite easy to do.