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…

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…

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…

I wanted some shade just outside of my garage door, so I picked up an inexpensive canopy (from Harbor Freight, naturally). I still have it (though I've replaced the canopy fabric multiple times), and the frame is still securely anchored to the driveway. This is…

I saw a YouTube video for the Maslow CNC project, and went and purchased it right away (I think I got in on the 2nd round). The machine became quite a big project in-and-of-itself. The video says "Pt 1", but I never made a "Pt…