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to me this is more like you learned to be a woodworker because you liked actually creating things with your hand tools, and now all day long is just using a CNC
by tetraodonpuffer 10y ago
to me this is more like you learned to be a woodworker because you liked actually creating things with your hand tools, and now all day long is just using a CNC router is copy-pasting CNC patterns from cncoverflow and then glueing the machined wooden pieces together.
it's not woodworking anymore, it's glueing and google-fu to find the best patterns on cncoverflow, together with maybe some shim-building here and there and making your own custom stain
- Diederich 10y agoSpeaking for my own professional experience, while there is a ton of glue and google-fu, the net results are frequently interesting and at least someone novel. I guess it's a question of what is done with newly available, powerful tools and abstractions.
- hathawsh 10y agoI just searched for cncoverflow based on your comment. I was disappointed to find it doesn't exist. It sounds cool. ;-)
- tetraodonpuffer 10y agohah surprised it doesn't honestly, you'd think there'd be a need for people to discuss feed rates, cnc bits, materials and so on, especially with quite a few techie woodworkers nowadays building their own CNC from kits
- rdiddly 10y agoThere are places like thingiverse.com and shapeways.com though, where people share & buy designs, mostly intended to be 3D-printed.
- Clubber 10y agoThat's a great analogy. Its as if programming moved from creating to assembly. (The act not the language)