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Adam the HipNerd

Maslow CNC Z-Axis Upgrade

The original design of the Maslow CNC relied the router's own height adjustment to move the router along the Z-axis. The whole setup was inaccurate and unreliable. See my Pentaflake Tabletop series for some of my problems with the Maslow Z-axis. Bryan Maynard (AKA MeticulousMaynard)…

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Guitar

My friend, Don, offered me a chance to make a guitar for him. I'm no luthier, so rather than start from scratch, he bought a kit. He liked the pattern on my pentaflake tabletop and asked that I do something similar on the guitar body…

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CNC Halftone Experiments

Ok, if you can make a halftone image on a 3D printer, why not on a CNC machine? These were proof of concept tests. (In case you can't tell, the top portrait is of Albert Einstein.) I used a conical bit, and made the depth…

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Pentaflake Tabletop

See HipNerd Origins 2 for the story of the first Pentaflake Tabletop. I decided that my first big project with my new CNC would be to make a new tabletop for my outdoor table. I still wanted to go with a pentaflake pattern, but changed…

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