10 Comments on the Buildlog.net Forum

bdring
Made a longboard..."for the kids"

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http://www.buildlog.net/blog/2012/08/psone-longboard/
Comment on: Wednesday, August 29th 2012 - 10:37 PM
orcinus
Beautiful work :D
You should start selling them.
Comment on: Friday, August 31st 2012 - 7:20 AM
bdring
The first longboard ended up being a little too long for my daughter, so we we worked together on a shorter one.

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Yes....This is one piece of wood.

We wanted to put some holes through the board, but I was concerned about weakening the board too much. Smaller holes would keep the board stronger, but would not look as good. I then had the idea of only cutting the holes half way through and staggering them on the back side. This creates an awesome look and each hole is sort of cross braced.

When fabricating with a router you are always working with "negative" space. You create by taking away. The problem with a router is the tool diameter forces you to round all the inside corners. These intersecting pockets sneak past this limitation by forming the illusion of sharp corners many places in the design.

Each side was routed about 0.40" deep (more than half way). I did this to create a little extra open area in thee voids.

It ends up looking super complex, but in reality, it was completely cut with a 5/8" router bit in about 7 minutes per side, with one toolpath per side.

The board is plenty strong for a ride up to about 175 lbs.
Comment on: Friday, August 31st 2012 - 10:28 PM
bdring
I started something....

Monster shapeoko makes long boards.

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Comment on: Saturday, September 1st 2012 - 1:26 AM
GiriPod
Really like the perforation design.

How big is the "Monster" Shapeoko? Are there any issues flexing of the MakerSlide?
Comment on: Saturday, September 1st 2012 - 2:00 AM
bdring
There is a whole thread about the Mega ShapeOko on the ShapeOko forum.

The cuts look good. My first router was a lot more flimsy and I got great parts off it.

"Only a bad machinist blames the machine"
Comment on: Saturday, September 1st 2012 - 2:16 AM
Improbable Construct
That is my monster shapeoko.
It has a cutting area of Y=40" X=32"
There were some flex issues, but I resolved most of them with dual Y drive, supports along the Y axis and I doubled up the makerslide on the X axis. There is still more flex in the Z than I would like, but I have some ideas to try.
This was the first job that used the whole cutting area and it performed beautifly.
Comment on: Saturday, September 1st 2012 - 3:52 PM
bill.french
Improbable Construct wrote:That is my monster shapeoko.
It has a cutting area of Y=40" X=32"
There were some flex issues, but I resolved most of them with dual Y drive, supports along the Y axis and I doubled up the makerslide on the X axis. There is still more flex in the Z than I would like, but I have some ideas to try.
This was the first job that used the whole cutting area and it performed beautifly.


Do you have a link to your buildlog? I'd like to see some details.
Comment on: Sunday, September 2nd 2012 - 8:32 PM
Improbable Construct
Unfortunately I was not that organized. There is no one cohesive buildlog, but these posts cover most of the information.

http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=302
http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=643
http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=649
http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=475
http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=227
http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=306
http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=245

Sorry for the mess. I really should go through and make one thread with all of this info.
Comment on: Monday, September 3rd 2012 - 3:52 AM
loopingz
Very interesting! I cant wait to play with my shapeoko! I also have some idea for my kite boards...
Comment on: Wednesday, September 5th 2012 - 4:56 PM