Machining Times

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Sat, Aug 18 2007, 7:34PM

I am trying to find the approximate machining times for the Renaissance Hall collection carvings. I thought they were in the .pdf that you download but all it had was the tooling. Does anyone know where to get the times ?
Kerry

Joe Soto · Post by **Joe Soto** » Sun, Aug 19 2007, 1:41AM

Kerry, Try searching the member store by the carving part number from the .pdf. Like RP-FR-FN0002 is the Large Front/Back Carvings.
Joe

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Sun, Aug 19 2007, 8:44AM

Thanks Joe,
I never thought about searching using the part number. I was just hunting for the parts. That gives me exactly what I need to know.
you can probably help with my next question.
I am stretching these carvings in a couple of designs. The pattern still looks great in eCabinets. Is what I see, what I am going to get and does stretching the carving cause problems for the machine operator?
Kerry

Joe Soto · Post by **Joe Soto** » Sun, Aug 19 2007, 11:58AM

Kerry, What you see should be what you get. The control handles everything. I just create the .twd from the part editor and sent it to the control. I have scaled most of my carvings without any problems. One time I did shrink 1 quiet a bit, it carved fine except for the last line, it didn't retract enough and left a ugly groove right down the middle. Thermwood says stretching a lot could affect the quality of the cut but I haven't seen that so far, I have stretched to about 150%. I do try to keep the ratios(x,y) close to the originals but thats more for looks.
Joe

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Sun, Aug 19 2007, 6:49PM

Thanks Joe,
I am not stretching or compressing much.
I am playing with the idea for a dining table. I would probably do a mahogany table and for the top have a 5\" mahogany border with walnut burl inlay in the center.

I still have to play with it a lot. Stretching and Compressing will cause a problem with the way the carvings meet the legs. I would probably do a mock up of those two parts in mdf or something before I tried the whole thing. From the mock up I can tell if I can hand carve or rasp the joints into submission.
This would open to accept one or two leaves.
With over 16 hours of machine time though, I don't know if I can make it work.
(the first one would be for my wife.)
By building the first one for myself I can hopefully eliminate any problems that come up.

Kerry

DanEpps · Post by **DanEpps** » Mon, Aug 20 2007, 6:51AM

Love the design Kerry. You said it would be able to expand with one or two leaves. How are you thinking about handling the carved apron for expansion--split in the center or sliding ends?

Michael S Murray · Post by **Michael S Murray** » Mon, Aug 20 2007, 7:12AM

Kerry,
I have one of those legs carved in mdf and your welcome to borrow it for your mock up if that would help save on your costs.

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Mon, Aug 20 2007, 7:18AM

Dan,
It will split at the joint between the two carvings and the leaves will have a solid piece that will form sort of a (oval medallion) between the two carvings. I will post a picture when I get it worked out.
It would also be neat to do a banquet table this way because you have the center leg available. A six legged table that breaks on both ends to extend.
Kerry

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Mon, Aug 20 2007, 7:23AM

Michael,
I appreciate the offer but I have lengthened the leg so that will change the placement of the carving on the leg. It looks like the carving on the leg is designed to flow into the original 8\" tall moldings. I am making the leg longer and compressing the apron so the carving is going to be messed up. I will need to see how this looks in real life.
This table will have to sell in the 4 to 5 thousand dollar area so it would have to be pretty much perfect.
Kerry