It is that time of year again in Scouts and other groups…time to build your Pinewood Derby cars. The goal is to transform this… into a masterpiece of art and speed! Each year I make three cars (one each for my son and daughter and one for me). Finding the right balance in the time we…
The latest bit offerings from CarveWright allow for carving 2.125″ deep! They are the 1/16″ Long Carving Bit and the 1/8″ Long Carving Bit shown to the right. I’ve been working with these bits for the last few weeks on a variety of projects to see what I could do with them. Once I got…
In my virtual travels around the net, I occasionally come across something that blows my mind. Recently this happened, and I discovered it was being done with a CarveWright. I try to keep up with the world of 3D fabrication in general. With all the recent 3D printers and CNC machines flooding the market it…
Over the summer, we did another exciting molding project that turned out really well. I wanted to show it off before I got too far into other projects. We were putting some lamp posts along a boardwalk in my brother’s yard. These lamp posts needed pedestals to be secured to as well as to make…
September 5, 2013 So, I found a Fender Telecaster in a ditch that looks like some kid went Pete Townsend on it and needed to hide the evidence before mom found it in pieces. The neck is in perfect shape, and there are pickups and some hardware. Now, what to do with this. I am…
I am always looking through the CarveWright users forum to see what people are doing, and I am constantly impressed by the work they are presenting. We have some very talented customers, and their work speaks volumes about the CarveWright system. I wanted to just highlight a few that I really enjoyed in the last…
For the 2013 CarveWright Conference I wanted to build something big. I wanted a project that inspired and spoke to a variety of people and their diverse interests. I wanted to do a piece of cabinetry, but also wanted to use some experimental techniques to show off some new possibilities. We had created a “New…
Dick Bipes (DickB on the CW forum) posted this video today on the CarveWright users forum. He calls is B³ for Baileigh Bit Box, and is his submission for the Sawmillcreek.com contest sponsored by Baileigh Industrial. It is a very impressive box with custom designed hinges and a unique curved shape all designed and created…
Directors Bandstand Project 04/18/13 I am sure that all of you CarveWright owners can understand that owning such a cool machine means that you are constantly bombarded with people who would like your help with this project or that. I usually oblige eagerly because we constantly have new things to try or test on the machines here…
When I first set out to make the chocolate molds from my last blog post, I had an idea for making custom tins for packaging the chocolates. What if I could stamp metal and create a custom embossed tin box? This will take some thinking and some experimenting, but I think I can pull it…
I’ve seen over the years several customers playing with mold making with their CarveWrights. The machine is so perfect for doing this kind of thing, but I had never experimented with it, until now. I’m going to explore actually making a complete product all the way to the packaging, using the machine to make production…
I’m getting started on my next build. This project is a flute designed by Brandon MacDougall of Liquidguitars.com. Brandon is well known in the CarveWright community and beyond for his beautiful guitars, violins, and other stringed instruments. Not only do these pieces look beautiful, they also sound beautiful. In order to manufacture these with the CarveWright, Brandon…
I always liked the Starship USS Voyager from the Star Trek TV series. Everyone wants to make the Enterprise, but I like the sleek elegant look of the Voyager, so I set out to find a good 3D model of it online. As always, I went to google and asked where I might find said…
