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Hi Jim, The craft foam was purchased in standard size sheets roughly 8" x 10" is size and 1/8" thick at a Michaels craft store. Just about any craft store would carry them I think. It can be easily cut to create a custom dust boot in whatever configuration you may desire. We have laser cutting capab...

Thanks Michael and Eric. The indexing system was pretty straight foward as it was just a narrow straight edge that I clamped to one side of the clamping table just at the edge of the carvable area with an alignment mark on the straight edge denoting the 0,0 point. That would then allow me to carve t...

We just finished up another job for a client of ours who was contracted to design and fabricate some custom office furniture for one of his corporate clients. Our portion of the job was just the CNC routing. All of the furniture is solid maple and cherry and the fronts of all of the doors/drawers we...

Thanks Eric. The cart is made from basic 2x4's, 2x6's, and 1/2" MDF panels. The main part of the cart is basically just a square box made from 2x4's and 2x6's that are just butt jointed and screwed together with 3-1/2" screws and use MDF panels for the top and bottom of the box. Underneath the MDF o...

Take a look at this post (http://www.cncsharktalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=65). I posted several photos of the dust collection solution I use. I have asthma and needed a dust collection solution that would for sure take care of the super fine saw dust particles and this setup does a great job with th...

Continuation... Probably the biggest challenge was designing the dust collection system for the Shark since it had to be powerful enough to collect the bulk of the dust and debris generated during carving but also had to offer minimal weight and resistance to ensure the stepper motors would not be a...

Here are some photos of some of the setup solutions I've come up with for my Shark Pro. The first challenge was coming up with a mobile cart design for the Shark that would give me ample working area when in use and that could also be collapsed down to minimize its footprint when not in use. You can...

Attached are several photos of a project that we recently completed for one of our clients who was developing a high-end, outdoor serving cart targeted at hunters and sportsmen. They wanted to dress up the cart and hired us to design and fabricate a variety of carved panel options for the front of t...