The Latest Build

Things are cruising along over at my new space in the Prism Glass Works building. I've my own little 250 square foot slice of heaven right next to Club Workshop.

I need to build a workbench and table to get the space setup. I'm using this as an opportunity to hone my drafting and AutoCAD skills. This is my drawing for the two cabinet frames that will sit on each end of the 5 foot long bench

Panels laid out for CNC routing.

I drew this in AutoCAD because I intend to fabricate it on the CNC router tomorrow. I'll load this drawing into a CAM program to create tooling paths and, hopefully, completely functional pieces that only need to be glued and brad-nailed together.

The bed on the CNC router is horrendously uneven, so my first job will be to throw a piece of 3/4" MDF on and mill a flat surface. Once that's done, I'll load the 3/4" birch plywood and run some cabinets.

On a side note, I drafted this in Google's Sketchup program originally. It's more intuitive to use than AutoCAD, but the free version doesn't export files I can use to create the tool paths. Would you like to see the Sketchup version?

Original Sketchup cabinet design. The new version is slightly modified.

I didn't drill holes for shelf pins, and haven't decided if I'm going to yet... I guess it'll depend on how well this come out. The CNC router at the workshop is a modified ShopBot, intended to be a hobby and not a production machine.

More build details as they happen.