Timbuck
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It's been 3 weeks since my number one Son "Mike" started teaching himself "Solidworks" 3 dimensional CAD/CAM..and he's progressing quite well..He has turned out my special raduis dish..and I'm hoping I can get him to rough out some Soprano necks for me or something like that
..Presently he's in the process of making himself some mold's for thermo plastic forming..He's making them out of chipboard kitchen worktop offcuts..he makes a rough shape from the chipboard then coats it with catalytic resin (car body filler) the goes over it again to fill all the lumps and voids in the chipboard..then one more final thin coat of resin and final machining to produce the desired finish...I thought i'd take a couple of Pic's.
This is it before the final coat.
And here is the Machine in action roughing outjust click on the image for video
..Presently he's in the process of making himself some mold's for thermo plastic forming..He's making them out of chipboard kitchen worktop offcuts..he makes a rough shape from the chipboard then coats it with catalytic resin (car body filler) the goes over it again to fill all the lumps and voids in the chipboard..then one more final thin coat of resin and final machining to produce the desired finish...I thought i'd take a couple of Pic's.This is it before the final coat.
And here is the Machine in action roughing outjust click on the image for video
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