Woven basket illusion #2

I’ve never heard of the LatheEngraver, though I have a Legacy CNC with a lathe that I’ve toyed with. Is this basicly the same process?

David D Olson said:

I’ve never heard of the LatheEngraver, though I have a Legacy CNC with a lathe that I’ve toyed with. Is this basicly the same process?

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The LatheEngraver is something I've made. It is actually fairly different from a traditional 3-axis CNC with a rotary axis, as it has two rotary axes. The advantage is that you can position the tool perpendicular to aany plane on the piece. This means you can basically embellish any surface. Here are more photos/videos of the evolution of the project (which is just about to go on the market).

Fascinating. Is it Capable of following a curve? Do you turn the bowl with the Engraver or do you hand turn the bowl to a specific dimension?

David D Olson said:

Fascinating. Is it Capable of following a curve? Do you turn the bowl with the Engraver or do you hand turn the bowl to a specific dimension?

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The turning is all done by hand. The machine is purely for embellishment. It can follow the profile, though that takes an additional step in scanning the profile.

Ok. So you can scan. Big help. Now I get it.

Scanning is useful if you have a complex design you want to put on a large surface of the piece. For small and/or simple things, you don't need to scan, you just need to establish a plane on that you want to cut into. For example, with making pockets for pewa I just have to know the diameter at the cut site and the angle of the tool (which you get empirically by rotating the motor) and you can cut the exact same pocket anywhere. That all comes down to the software and doing coordinate modifications.