Progress on my Lathe project #23 - Plettenberg Bay, S.Africa

[Alan_c]

Hennie, nice doors.

To echo Heath's request - yes please on the door and draw info - I need to steal with my eyes...

When you said above that you would still use the spindle method, would that be making them as traditional doors with rails stiles and loose panel and then have them wrapped?

[hennie]

If I do a five piece door I won`t wrap them.We only wrap 16-18 mm doors where If I made traditional doors the rails and stiles are 21-22 mm thick.
Sometimes with the wrap doors the foil doesn`t go into all the patterns.( a drawback and some rejects )will make some samples and cut up to show what it looks like once it has been foiled.

[Lex]

Hennie,
Did jou use only one v-shape bit on dot the door or other shapes as well?
Eish, lyk mooi!
My wife really likes your doors and kitchen designs. She is getting more and more exited by the day. There was a time..looong again when she felt like that about me!

[Alan_c]

I take it then that these are solid wooden doors ? I want to achieve the "square" inside corner on one piece MDF on the MM (remember it will be a painted finish - I don't have the luxury of a foiling machine )

TRI27D2.jpg

[Gerald D]

Alan, you must learn to turn "failures" into "features"

failure: square corners impossible with rotating bit, but . . .

feature: slightly rounded corners do not give germs places to hide in your kitchen!

[hennie]

And to clean why do you think we paint the doors?

I might be wrong but Thermwood have a thing called e-cabinet systems with cutting files to do that type of door.

[Richards]

"Sharp" corners are fairly easy to do with a V-cutter, especially when the raised panel has 90-degree corners. Just insert a command that lifts the Z-axis as the cutter moves at a 45-degree angle to the cut. (Arched top doors require a little math to get the angles right.) In the doors program that I wrote for the Shopbot community, I changed from absolute mode to relative mode while I made those corner cuts. The actual "sharpness" depends on how "pointed" the cutter really is.

[IN-WondeR]

What kind of foil press are you using... I mean brand name, or perhaps a link.

[Richards]

I didn't have time earlier to give a G-code example of making a sharp corner. Right now I'm at a computer site, so I can't test the code, but if I remember correctly, this is basically how it works (assuming inch mode, 90-degree V-cutter)


% sharp_corners.tap

% set absolute mode
G90

G00 Z1.00
G00 X1.00 Y1.00

% start the cut
G01 Z-0.25 F30
G01 X10.0 F240

% select incremental or relative mode
G91

% sharpen a corner
G01 X0.25 Y-0.25 Z0.25 F30
G01 X-0.25 Y0.25 Y-0.25

% select absolute mode
G90

% make next cut
G01 Y10.0 F240

G00 Z1.00

% end of example
M30

[bradm]

Neat Stuff. Typo:

Originally Posted by Richards

% sharpen a corner
G01 X0.25 Y-0.25 Z0.25 F30
G01 X-0.25 Y0.25 Y-0.25

% sharpen a corner
G01 X0.25 Y-0.25 Z0.25 F30
G01 X-0.25 Y0.25 Z-0.25

[Gerald D]

This method of sharpening a corner only works if two conditions are met:
- the cutter must have a sharp tip
- the cutter must have flat (straight) flanks.

Does not work for ogee bits

[hennie]

Johan I use the v groove cutter only to do v cuts.I will take pics tomorrow of my cutters.

On the side of having sharp corners I still prefer the five piece door there is no substitute.It gives more depth and it has a more solid feel to it.It does take longer to make but that is my way of doing it.
I will put pic`s up when we make those doors step by step.

We are making std doors tomorrow with the spindle will start my door thread with them

[domino11]

Hennie,
Will look forward to it!

[hennie]

Kim I did put picks of the machine and the process somewhere so if someone knows where it is help.

Alan the luxury is about the same value of a house,to think you pay your house of in twenty years and that luxury in four years I wish I bought another house.
How many doors would you make to pay for a house?

[Richards]

Brad,
Thanks for catching that error. I could have used you today. For more than eight hours I searched the Internet for a reason that my PHP scripts were showing plain text instead of running PHP scripts. It turned out to be a typo in the httpd.conf file, a typo that I must have looked at more than one hundred times - without seeing it.
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I think that most of us would agree that MDF doors will never match the beauty and durability of solid doors, but, with the right painter who knows how to glaze, the MDF doors "appear" to have more value than traditional doors.

[hennie]

Kobus her are pic`s of the louvres before installed and what it looks like installed

[domino11]

Hennie,
Very nice looking . Are they used for privacy or for wind / shade protection?

[hennie]

Heath I think it is for privacy

[Kobus_Joubert]

Nothing beats REAL wood...nice stuff Hennie

[hennie]

Had to make these this morning

[Gerald D]

That's a nice simplified version of broekie lace!

Now you need to do lengths of those PVC fascia boards . I was thinking of a MM built like a thicknesser (ala carvewright) for these long narrow boards.

[hennie]

The only big problem is to get pvc in town,remember I stay in a holiday village.The 2750 length MM should do fascia boards as that might be the std length supplied ( 1220X2800 )I would like to work with some plastics as there is a lot of pro`s down at the coast for it.

[Gerald D]

Hennie, these are the suppliers with good service:
http://www.ppplastics.co.za/contact.asp

[Gerald D]

Here is the other company that I know of:
http://www.southernprofiles.co.za/

[Barman]

Hennie , nice work.
I look forward to create my own cabinet doors.

[hennie]

Some things that I was doing recently for the kids school and a project that I am busy with.First letters that I cut on my MM

[javeria]

Hennie - looks neat and great!

I am new to all this - still trying to learn to get that finish

[Doug_Ford]

BEAUTIFUL work!!!

[hennie]

I was switching my MM on yesterday morning and when I set the z-axis hight there was nothing ,no movement.The x and y axis worked no problem when I joged.On the computer screen it shows that there is movement up and down but there was no movement on the machine.I checked the wires from the motors to the control box all fine gecko`s looked like they were fine lights burning,bob looked fine.

Something tells me that there is no signal going to the bob from the computer?I switched everything off, fiddiled with the wires going to the computer swithced it on and it worked all fine for the whole day.I had to do a delivery at 2 o`clock so I swithced the machine off as I came back the same thing happened no movement on the z-axis. I need some advice please?

[Kobus_Joubert]

Roes my maat Roes...gooi bietjie brandewyn op die drade... Double check all the screws that connect wires....maybe one is not making contact as it should.