CNC Shark Forum

Hello all

A lot of changes here! We are fully retired and moved to Edgewater, FLnow. We are in the process of moving all my shop equipment including my CNC Shark.

Have a great weekend!

.... Rod

This is my first Baby Cradle project. I reviewed several designs and decided to do something a little different. I had a few requirements as follows: 1. Style would be a simple classic design with 3D Carved panels. (Teddy Bear, Toy Blocks & an ornate Cross) 2. Assembly would have to allow for flat s...

Interesting! I have noticed hot stepper motors even on a cool day in Florida. I have been running the machine for over three years now even on hot days in Florida. Nothing but a fan in my shop. The good news is I haven't had any problems with the motors, controller or Dell XPS laptop I run the machi...

My daughter wanted a letter M for her last name for a wall decoration. Just a simple M and not initials. We decided to decorate the face of the M with 3D Maple leaves. We designed this all in VCarve Pro. Selecting a font and then converted the text to curves. Then we used several instances of the 3D...

Nice job!

... Rod

Bill,

Nice job! Thanks for posting the design tools you used.
... Rod

Kayvon: I ordered the HDPE from McMaster-Carr Industrial supplies online site. I made the support arms first including milling the groves that the cross beams set into. I drilled and counter sunk the arms to accept two flat head machine screws in each arm and the ends at the cross beam are drilled a...

Sure! I have a few and it wasn't complete when I took these pictures. The shop vac was placed in the attic above my garage shop. I added a home built muffler to the exhaust and piped it out thru the wall using a cloths dryer type thru the wall fitting. When I add added electrical circuit to my shop ...

I made up a hose with swivel ends. I just measured the Swivel ends and they are 2 1/4. I believe the hose side is 2 1/2. I probably ordered all this stuff from Rockler or Amazon. The hose I used has a wire coil which I connected a ground wire to on both ends. I used plastic dust pipe for my dust sys...

Rando, You are right to add that caution and hint on "lead-in and lead-out". I have used this for cutting a slot in the edge with a slotting bit. I always cut some air first to test the program. I second the motion on being tricky. When cutting like this, I always use a starting point at the lower l...