today's video is going to be having
several of you guys quoting movie lines and otherwise screaming hey you guys hey everyone my name is sam and welcome back to
sam craft today i have a very fun project it is a cnc project but it's also a fan art project
meaning i'm a fan of the movie and i'm going to make some art fan art gotta be careful how to say
that to get things started we're gonna go back in time two days when i started this project and
hop over into my home office into carveco maker and start designing so i'm gonna open up karvko
maker plus which is my cad program of choice and i'm going to go ahead and click on new model
set my dimensions a width of 16 inches a height of 12.
I'm going to set my origin to be the
bottom left corner or the front left corner it opens up my model i'm gonna go ahead and
import my vectors which i've already created there we go a lot of work was done
behind the scenes creating the vector fixing everything aligning it and all
that stuff i'm just going to spare you guys from all the design stuff because
that took probably two to three hours solid i like the size of this and everything of course i
made it to fit this if i wanted to scale this it's pretty easy to do i just go over to the transform
button and then i can adjust my width let's say i want it to be eight inches wide and click on
apply and change the size there it's pretty easy i'm going to go ahead and undo that though
because i don't want to make that change i'm ready to go ahead and calculate my tool
paths from this vector now so i want to select everything and then unselect the border i'm going
to create a tool path it's going to be a v-bit carving my maximum depth i like to use for my
signs is an eighth inch or 0.125 inches i find that's pretty good whether i decide to paint
something leave it as is or do epoxy inlays i'm going to choose my carving
tool now which is a 60 degree v bit and for this i'm also going to choose a roughing
tool that's going to be an eighth inch end mill and next thing i want to do is define my material
this is where i tell the carveco how thick the material is that i'm working with in my case i'm
using half inch baltic birch which the stuff i use measures out to be 0.505 inches i measured that
with my dial calipers that's how i know or my digital calipers all right so we'll go ahead
and give our tool path a name i like just to keep the naming simple this is carve and we'll
click on calculate now and looks pretty good all right i'm going to select this outside vector
which is going to become the cutout of this sign click on tool path go down to 2d toolpaths
and then click create profile toolpath it automatically sets the finished depth to
the depth of my material so i leave that as is my profiling tool is going to be my eighth
inch end mill again that is my favorite bit i like using my eighth inch compression
bits for the baltic birch it really does well all right as far as bridges
i'm going to add one two three seven and i'll explain why here in just a second
so 7 bridges 0.2 inches long 0.2 inches thick and a 2d bridge i always have it set to add
bridges on start points because i also edit my vectors to have start points in
logical locations at least i try to i'm gonna click on the add button and we can see
here that it's add the bridges in they look pretty good um actually no i don't like the location
so i'm going to click on edit bridges whoops i reselect my vector now edit bridges is selected i
want to move these around i want two on the bottom right there i want one on the side there and i'll have one in the very top center and
then these two i'm gonna move to the outside i like to place my bridges in locations
that are easy to clean up and sand off when the project's done so most of the time i do
manually edit the bridge locations in my files it looks good so i'm gonna go ahead
and give this a name let's see cutout works and click on calculate now looks
great all right as i expand my tool paths menu i'm going to also expand these you can see how
the carve shows that it's using an eighth inch end mill and then a 60 degree v-bit and the
cutout uses just the eighth inch end mill thinking of my order of operations and this
project real time i don't want to do the car first and then the cutout because i'll be going
from end mill to v-bit to end mill and that can add some room for error but also it's
more labor that i really want to deal with this is also why i added more bridges
i'm going to move the cutout tool path job to the top of the list so that will be
the first thing that's done and that way it'll cut it out and then it'll rough it out
i'll change my bit and then it'll carve it out so at this point everything looks good one thing
i like to usually do if it's a new first time project is go up to model and measure tool zoom
in on my areas where i probably will put my clamps and just measure what my distance is here i've got
three quarters of an inch on the left side that's plenty enough room for my clamps i can see i have
good clearances on the top so i'm good on the clamping as far as my model size and everything
so i can go ahead and export and save my file to save the file i'm going to select tool paths
at the very top and then click on the little save toolpath icon here it will already have most of
my file name done because i've actually already saved this but you can see here on the right hand
side where it's got the toolpaths listed out i can choose which of those i want to save in this one
gcode file for this i just save it all as once got my cutout my roughing carve and then my v carve
as far as file naming i like to be really picky and i have a set kind of nomenclature or format
that i like to use i generally start the file name off with what the product is in this case it's
a sign and then it's followed by a descriptor so this is a goonies sign and it has never say
die as a text so nsd after that i always like to give the dimensions of my material in height width
and thickness so 12 by 16 by 0.5 the bb stands for baltic birch in this case i program it design
it and want it to be made out of baltic birch it would probably still work for mdf but i just do
bb in the event i ever create an mdf only version next up i put the first tool used so .125 inch
in mill and then the second tool used 60 v for v bit and so forth in this case i
only use two tools so that's all i list if i had more i would just make the file
name as long as i could within reason so this is my first cut my cutout my carve
and everything so i'll go ahead and save it it's gonna fast at me it's already got
a file there but it's okay now with v-bit carbs i always always always recommend and do
a second v-carve or a pass or a finishing pass with carveco this is really easy to do i
can do it all right here from this window all i need to do is go up to my cutout tool path
remove it my roughing carve toolpath remove it and it leaves me with the finishing carve from
the same file i go down to my file name and i put finish on the end that way i know on this same
exact project this file is my finished cut file i'll go ahead and save it once again it's fussing
at me because i've already saved it but we'll override it and that's it i'm all done now one
other cool thing about carveco real quick before we get out is that you can simulate the toolpaths
which is really cool not a lot of cad programs okay most professional cad programs have this
the other freebies may not i'm gonna go ahead and run the simulation for the cut out
here you're able to see real time what the machine is going to be doing this shows me
where my bridge locations are it shows me the cut movements and everything if i right click
on carve and go to simulation control bar and then click play here it's going to show
me exactly how it's going to carve in this case these are all my roughing passes once it's
done with that then it'll do the finish passes for the sake of time i'm going to fast forward
this and here you see the red lines those are your tool paths all right it is stopped because that
is the end of the roughing pass if i move my model around we can see how it's really square not a lot
of detail well that's because that's everything with that eighth inch end mill now if we go ahead
and click on play again it's going to go to the second part of the job which is the v bit and we
can see how it starts to carve everything out that way looks good i'm going to fast forward through
this because this would take a little bit to watch and we're done we have the full simulation of
exactly how the model or the job should appear in real life i can move the model around with my
mouse and take a look i can zoom in and look at some areas of this whole model the one area that
i am concerned with is a little dot of the eye which is actually a little crossbones skull guy
i think this is going to work out okay we'll see but otherwise everything looks good and i am ready
to carve this thing with that being said let's go into the workshop which is right through this wall
and let's start making this thing in real life um i'm going to load up my first bit which is the
eighth inch end mill i'm using these park tool wrenches for my collet i love these things they
have worked wonderfully well super strong and since buying these i've not had any problems
with bit slippage or anything else of the sort it's one of the tools that i consider essential
with my cnc and i have been really pleased with them if you're looking for a set or interested
in them there's a link to them down below i don't peddle things i don't like
so if i link to it or talk about it you can guarantee that i like
it and i think that you would too so i'm loading up my file here on my tablet which
is what i use to run my motion software which is carbide motion for the cnc i had some questions
in my last video as far as hey what tablet is that what is it do you like it it's a fusion 5 brand
and it runs windows 10 as its operating system it was less than 250 bucks when i got it a couple
of months ago and i've been really pleased with it it is fanless so i don't have to worry about
it being in a dusty environment it runs windows so it does have compatibility beyond just the cnc
in case i change my mind later and i just i don't know i don't have any complaints there's a link
to it down below if you're interested i've not had any issues out of it running my machine and
i'm much more pleased with this form factor than using a computer keyboard and mouse or basically
anything else that i've seen just yet i'm gonna go ahead and click on start job and start it's
going to probe the bit over here on the bit setter okay well it's asking me to load the tool loaded now it's going to probe it here on the
bit setter this tells the machine exactly where the end of that bit is so it knows how deep
to go and all the other sorts of magical stuff um i'm going to turn on my dust collection because i think with the bit runner she's
going to start rocking and rolling immediately so truth be told i'm really geeking out
over this bit runner i'll like it okay time to swap out the end mill for the 60
degree v-bit and continue to rock and roll well guys it is done with its first job that would
be the cut as it is if i do not do a second finish pass as you can see from the clips here the
v-bit does leave a lot of cleanup that would be a lot of hand sanding detailed sanding work and
labor on my part if i was to leave it as it is however we remember to do a finishing pass we have
a separate file to run we have also not touched this machine at all it is not off it is kept at
zero points i have not touched any of the clamps so what we can do is open up our file press start
let it do its thing and clean this sign up for us so while it's not a hundred percent ready
to rock and roll that does save a whole lot of labor on my part or your part to just
run that second vcarve pass i'm going to be sanding up the details really quickly
with these little sandy sticks that i have they're from a company called lumberton they are
made in the usa and this little pack comes with four different grits plus extra belts this
is one of the coolest things i was able to find for my cnc as far as detail sanding
it's basically a tiny little belt sander it gives you a pointy detail around it and as it gets used you can kind of just twist
it rotate it and get to a new part of the belt this makes quick work of detailed sanding
plus it's nice just to have it in a little kit so there is no other option as far as color for
this sign other than it for it to be black with white inlays for the letters and
one-eyed willy so let's take it out on the front porch of the shop and start
laying down our base coat of black paint it has been about four hours this sign is totally
painted up for the paint i just use some high performance enamel spray paint and about six to
seven coats later and four hours we're all done i've got the front the back and the edges all
painted up now this thing is ready for final finishing in my opinion there is only one color
to use for this white you've got the pirate logo so obviously white's going across bones on a black
border and then for the goonies and never say die text might as well do it white too i think it's
going to give it a nice crisp look and not be too busy overall now i could go a couple of different
routes with this white color i could paint it i could hand brush it i could spray paint it i could
also epoxy it i am going to choose to epoxy this a couple of weeks back i built myself a
modular add-on drawer unit for my cnc table and have loved it ever since mainly because i
now have spaces for my stuff i have one drawer dedicated to all of my epoxy gear bits and bobbins
things from gloves to cups to syringes popsicle sticks the actual epoxy resin itself colorants
and even a heat gun for this epoxy inlay it's going to be pretty basic i'm going to start with
half and half resin and hardener i will then add in however much colorant i need to make it
solid white and opaque mix it up and then probably go ahead and pull it up in my syringes
and do the detailed areas first pour the larger areas hit it with the heat gun and then probably
repeat that process another time or two at least that turned out awesome that turned out so
awesome i'm really geeking out over that i've got to now take my sign and sit at
somewhere level and clean to let the epoxy cure and set up overnight that's going to
be my home office same place we were in earlier on this video feels like a long time ago
but still the same day so let me carefully take it in there let it cure overnight and i'll
show you guys the final thing in the morning i gotta admit this is my favorite thing i've made
on my cnc to date and it's probably gonna be hard to top this i'm a big goonies fan i grew up movies
and like watching it and as an adult i got the dvds and everything else and it is just one of
those classics that never die because goonies never say die i like the graphic that i designed
up here at the top i wanted a kind of more simple skull and crossbones look but i also
wanted it to be definitively goonies i wanted any goonies fan to be able to see this and
recognize who this is namely by that eye patch and it also be kind of playful i was very pleased
with how the little skull on the eye turned out i was a little worried about how epoxy would
go with that and everything but it turned out wonderful as you saw i also put a sawtooth hanger
on the back to hang this on the wall this is kind of what i like to do with signs because most of
my material is half inch plywood and once i carve and pocket everything out i just don't want to run
the risk of routing out a keyhole slot in the back because i'm afraid of ruining the sign at that
point in addition to these sawtooth brackets i made some quick little blocks to make this thing
could stand up on its own on the shelf or whatever i am probably going to leave this in my workshop
unless my wife and kids come in near this one and at that point if we don't have the wall space i
can stick it on those little mounts but it was a cool little thing to do as well just to include
an additional option and you know different way to present it if you enjoyed this video give
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care and i'll see you next time in the workshop this is going on the wall you