Tom Overthere
11-23-2008, 2:06 PM
I'm certainly interested in the artistic/stylistic capabilities of CNC routing, but right now I'm trying to understand the basic capabilities. For instance, would a CAMaster or ShopBot with a 48x96" work envelop provide an efficient means of doing the following:
1) Cutting straight-edged furniture part blanks from 4x8 sheets of cabinet plywood (instead of using a wall-mounted panel saw or table saw).
2) Cutting contoured furniture parts from full 4x8 sheets of cabinet plywood.
3) Cutting contoured furniture parts from hardwood blanks.
4) Creating true parallel edges on plywood or hardwood parts (in place of a jointer).
5) Routing edge profiles that span the entire edge of the work piece - where the router bit profile machines the entire edge surface.
6) Cutting Mortises and Tenons - and dare I ask...dovetails and box joints?
If there's an INFORMATIONAL PRIMER I could read instead of asking a lot of "dumb" questions, please point me in that direction. I'm sweating plans to outfit a specialty furniture shop, and am thinking (perhaps wrongly) that the right CNC router might help me avoid certain time-consuming (and dangerous) operations - and maybe a few large, expensive tools, too...
Thanks,
Tom
1) Cutting straight-edged furniture part blanks from 4x8 sheets of cabinet plywood (instead of using a wall-mounted panel saw or table saw).
2) Cutting contoured furniture parts from full 4x8 sheets of cabinet plywood.
3) Cutting contoured furniture parts from hardwood blanks.
4) Creating true parallel edges on plywood or hardwood parts (in place of a jointer).
5) Routing edge profiles that span the entire edge of the work piece - where the router bit profile machines the entire edge surface.
6) Cutting Mortises and Tenons - and dare I ask...dovetails and box joints?
If there's an INFORMATIONAL PRIMER I could read instead of asking a lot of "dumb" questions, please point me in that direction. I'm sweating plans to outfit a specialty furniture shop, and am thinking (perhaps wrongly) that the right CNC router might help me avoid certain time-consuming (and dangerous) operations - and maybe a few large, expensive tools, too...
Thanks,
Tom