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[Matthias], eminent woodworker he is, designed and built an awesome machine to make copies of just about any object imaginable. With a few scrap 2x4s, and a few bolts, screws, and skateboard bearings, you too can copy anything into a solid block of wood. The theory of operations for [Matthias]' copy carver is mounting a router and 'follower' to the same piece of wood. Put that on an XY table … [Read more...]
It seems that there is no end to ingenious woodworking tools, such as this 3-D Router Pantograph from [Woodgears.ca]. The pantograph, a design using linkages to trace and scale drawings, may have been invented in the 1600s, but if we were honest, most of us haven't heard of this device. This particular pantograph is able to trace letters or other stencils in three dimensions by pivoting about an … [Read more...]
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