Kitchen Fronts, Door Carving and Bus Parts #64 - Novi Sad, Serbia

[Surfcnc]

Beautiful stuff Danilo.

Regards
Ross

[darren salyer]

Very nice work, Danilo.
I've just purchased aspire 3.5 and spent the weekend watching tutorials.
How long did that huge arch top piece take to carve?

[danilom]

51min , its 1000x500mm

[Pajka]

Danilo car si,the best.

[Johannescnc]

Nice work! Inspiring.
Looks like poplar but I know in Europe they use a different name for it.
Pappel in Germany...

[danilom]

Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. They are generally called lime in Britain and linden or basswood in North America.

Thats the wood. Its very nice for carving but lacks texture like ash or maple.

[javeria]

Danilo - outstanding - can you post the pic from where you have derived the vectors.

would like to practice some beautiful work myself.

[danilom]

And here is the final piece, crown for the top, and a batten which goes below it and on top of the arch piece.
More pics to come when it gets assembled.

[javeria]

Looks Great!

[domino11]

Nice!

[silverdog]

Originally Posted by danilom

Bits arrived, will test them soon, its heaviest bit I held and its only 1/2" or 12.7mm


GULP!

Ciao Danilo, I've looket at carbidechiu but can't find any compression bit like the one in the photo, did I misunderstood who is your supplier ?
thanks
Sergio

[danilom]

These are not from him, I got these from Leitz tooling USA outlet store on ebay. 5 for 55$, original price was 105$ each. I can't find the store any more it looks like they closed their acc, you can look at here for onsrud outlet they also have nice prices and always something new, just be sure to look every now and then and you will get the superb price on compression spirals
http://stores.ebay.com/LMT-Onsrud-Ro...its-and-Blades

All other bits I use are from carbidechiu and I order them directly from him. Ball and ordinary endmills all work great and are quality stuff.

Forgot to add, I found a local source for nice compression bits 8mm, great for plywood cut at once. They are about 30eur a piece.

[silverdog]

Thank you Danilo

[HomeMadeCnc]

Nice Job! I like you hold down system too.
Cheers!
Tim #79

[danilom]

And now for something completely different !

Vlada and I made molds for our local bus manufacturer, the chassis is from Mercedes and all plastic parts were made by two of us.

Dashboard, led display arch above entrance and fender edge (I think) by Vlada, drivers cabin and all back seat surrounding by me.

Enjoy! Here is a video of routing Necuron and MDF molds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ0nCgBZRZ8


The bus was shown at the fair and we got some pictures from there too

[danilom]

And here are some images while the stuff was still on the Mechmate

[dbinokc]

Very cool. Is this for a prototype of the bus or is it in actual use?

[Fox]

Cool job, did you seal the mdf before you cut it !? I heard you can get great mold surface quality, when you impregnate the rough mould with resin, before the final cut is done. The resin will soak into the mdf quite deep, so your final surface quality is great...

[danilom]

We just cut it and then the molding guys did the rest of magic
the cabin mold you see was made of necuron, polyurethane board pretty nice stuff, machines like a dream but static electricity get's it everywhere

Its an actual bus meant for production run (250pcs /year)

[silverdog]

I propose Danilo Mechmater of the year !!! :-)

[danilom]

Vlada was in worst position we made him the gcode and he was running machine blind not even knowing how the parts look like, except on mach preview screen

Programming was all done in RhinoCAM, for this type of work its irreplaceable.

[Tom Ayres]

Excellent work, congrats to you guys!

[lonestaral]

Very impressive.

[darren salyer]

Wow. Incredible stuff.

[domino11]

Very Nice!

[pblackburn]

I do enjoy your posts. Thank you.

[Jason Marsha]

Congratulations guys. Excellent work.

Do you have to make more moulds for the company?

[racedirector]

That IS pretty cool, congrats on the job. Did they come to you or did you go out selling your services?

[danilom]

Jason : it will be difficult to sell this model, but if they design a new one well get more moulds


Bruce: Primary customers come trough our website, one thing I learned is that if you don't like to walk a lot put up a nice website (use wordpress), optimize the keywords and voila !
Each year I double the number of visitors, first year 10, next 20 and now on an average day 30 unique visitors. (google analytics)

[Andrew_standen]

Nice work.