Many of us found ourselves with some extra time off this year coupled with the inability (or at least significantly limited ability) to do the things we enjoy. Anybody pick up any new hobbies? Discover any good new series/movies/books/etc?
Many of us found ourselves with some extra time off this year coupled with the inability (or at least significantly limited ability) to do the things we enjoy. Anybody pick up any new hobbies? Discover any good new series/movies/books/etc?
I got into wood working, slowly turned my garage into a workshop and kept Home Depot\Lowes\Harbor Freight in business. Built some nice stuff and learning along the way. Don't know how people who live in cities and\or apartments deal, thankfully we have a home so we can actually move around and do things
I got into wood working, slowly turned my garage into a workshop and kept Home Depot\Lowes\Harbor Freight in business. Built some nice stuff and learning along the way. Don't know how people who live in cities and\or apartments deal, thankfully we have a home so we can actually move around and do things
Second woodworking. I’m totally hooked, found a great online instructional series and have been having loads of fun and building good looking and useful things.
Know my way around Home Depot very well at this point.
Can you post the online instructional series you are using. I’m interested in getting started but don’t have a clue on how... there is a wealth of info out there and I just need to focus.
Second woodworking. I’m totally hooked, found a great online instructional series and have been having loads of fun and building good looking and useful things.
Know my way around Home Depot very well at this point.
Second woodworking. I’m totally hooked, found a great online instructional series and have been having loads of fun and building good looking and useful things.
Know my way around Home Depot very well at this point.
I just used YouTube videos on projects I wanted to make and would follow the diy steps people make, buy the required tools, rinse and repeat for new projects and your shop slowly builds up with everything you need. I want a planer\jointer though but don't want to pay through my nose
Brisket, Boston butts, and pork ribs- the classics. I’d say it keeps for a week but it’s a lot of meat with the brisket and Boston butt so I put about 3 servings in the fridge and freeze the rest in as many quart bags as it takes.
I’ve also done Salmon that turned out great, but not in a good while. I should probably do that again. I’d also like to try tri-tip, shoulder clod, and beef ribs sometime.
My lady got me a Traeger for graduation and it's pretty much changed my life. Obviously doesn't have the "soul" or craftsmanship of painstakingly tending an old fashion smoker using your great-grandfather's brisket recipe but for someone who didn't do a lot of cooking before, to suddenly be able to easily do all kinds of barbecue, wood-fired pizza, jerky etc etc it's been pretty amazing.
i bought steve Ramsey’s the weekend woodworker. It has very thorough instructional videos for 6 main projects plus a lot of other extras and smaller projects. It’s only $150. There’s a lot of free samples of the videos out there too, check out the one about building “the basic mobile workbench” to get an idea of the flavor.
He also has tons of other free content on YouTube, everything is geared for beginners and people with limited knowledge, experience, tools etc. Talks abouthow to start building a workshop, what tools to start buying, how the tools work - just lots of good video content on the answers to basic questions. For the absolute beginner he has the best content I’ve found but there really is a lot out there on any woodworking topic you could imagine.
Brisket, Boston butts, and pork ribs- the classics. I’d say it keeps for a week but it’s a lot of meat with the brisket and Boston butt so I put about 3 servings in the fridge and freeze the rest in as many quart bags as it takes.
I’ve also done Salmon that turned out great, but not in a good while. I should probably do that again. I’d also like to try tri-tip, shoulder clod, and beef ribs sometime.
So far mostly scrap metal and a few broken end mills.
I turned a mostly square block of aluminum into a smaller perfectly square block of aluminum as a learning exercise.
Project #1 when I connect all the dots between CAD, G code, tooling, etc is a fixture device for testing rifle barrels. I have a neck turning lathe for rifle brass that I don't like very much, think I can make a better one. Naturally some AR15 receivers at some point, just because. I don't need any more, but it makes certain kinds of people anxious, which is its own reward. From now on every time I think "I wish I had a 3D printer" I'll be able to make that idea 7x as slowly, but in metal, therefore cooler.
To tell the truth I figured the ideas of what to do with it would come after I figured out how to use it.
It's like racing cars, how fast do you want to go spend? Figure anywhere from $3K for a toy to $100K and up for something a business could earn money with.
There are a few desktop sized ones out there for a few thousand $ but their work areas are so small that they're pretty limited. The materials they can handle are also limited. They're not very rigid so precision isn't so great.
About the cheapest you'll find out there, aside from the do-it-yourself hobby CNC setups, would be a Carbide 3D Nomad for about $2500.
Nomad 883 Pro has been discontinued. Check out the Nomad 3 to see the latest version. It includes: Nomad 883 Pro MeshCAM 3D CAM software Carbide Create 2D CAD/CAM software Power supply USB Cable MDF Wasteboard 1/8" ER-11 Collet and wrenches 1/8" Ball endmill 1/8" Flat endmill Double Sided Tape...
shop.carbide3d.com
More serious machines start in the $15-20K range and the first production quality ones are probably $40K+, and the sky's the limit from there.
I bought a used PCNC 1100 with a 4th axis. It's no longer in production or on their web site (except support docs), but its successor is this one:
The Tormach 1100MX is designed for prototyping, production, and education and with it's higher spindle speed and servo motors it has the power to cut through aluminum, titanium, hardened steels and alloys.
tormach.com
The base machine is about $20K. It's about the same as mine, although the newer 1100MX has better/bigger motors and a faster/bigger spindle. Work area is about the same, 18" x 9.5" x 16.25".
The previous owner was upgrading to a larger machine. Including tooling and various other accessories and home improvements to house it, I'm into it about $15K. A comparable new package might be $30K. Mills seem to be like cars, lots of resale value lost after you drive it off the lot.
There is a spine surgeon I know who has a cnc and makes his own cad drawings from scratch for guitar bodies and necks. All this as a hobby. It’s really quite impressive.
It's like racing cars, how fast do you want to go spend? Figure anywhere from $3K for a toy to $100K and up for something a business could earn money with.
There are a few desktop sized ones out there for a few thousand $ but their work areas are so small that they're pretty limited. The materials they can handle are also limited. They're not very rigid so precision isn't so great.
About the cheapest you'll find out there, aside from the do-it-yourself hobby CNC setups, would be a Carbide 3D Nomad for about $2500.
Nomad 883 Pro has been discontinued. Check out the Nomad 3 to see the latest version. It includes: Nomad 883 Pro MeshCAM 3D CAM software Carbide Create 2D CAD/CAM software Power supply USB Cable MDF Wasteboard 1/8" ER-11 Collet and wrenches 1/8" Ball endmill 1/8" Flat endmill Double Sided Tape...
shop.carbide3d.com
More serious machines start in the $15-20K range and the first production quality ones are probably $40K+, and the sky's the limit from there.
I bought a used PCNC 1100 with a 4th axis. It's no longer in production or on their web site (except support docs), but its successor is this one:
The Tormach 1100MX is designed for prototyping, production, and education and with it's higher spindle speed and servo motors it has the power to cut through aluminum, titanium, hardened steels and alloys.
tormach.com
The base machine is about $20K. It's about the same as mine, although the newer 1100MX has better/bigger motors and a faster/bigger spindle. Work area is about the same, 18" x 9.5" x 16.25".
The previous owner was upgrading to a larger machine. Including tooling and various other accessories and home improvements to house it, I'm into it about $15K. A comparable new package might be $30K. Mills seem to be like cars, lots of resale value lost after you drive it off the lot.
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. Vacuum seal and sous vide at 132.5f for about 1.5hr. Paper towel dab dry the surface and sear on rippin hot cast iron for ~1 min per side with a little bit of a Kerrygold butter baste toward the end. Serve on a warmed plate.
shop.carbide3d.com
tormach.com
