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mmmm nothing like the smell of burning poly vinyl chlorides in the morning LOL

btw I'm not saying don't go into business I'm saying understand what your getting into and do it right. So what if it's a knockoff nobody owns most of the stuff you see out there. One simple change and the patent is null. Most don't even bother. they just do it.

Rule #1 in lure building. It's all been done before. Rule #2 If in doubt refer to rule #1 copy this copy that. Who cares. Anyone can. How many do it legit. Not many. No insurance, no FET payments. Setup a website, accept paypal, buy your stuff under your wife or girlfirends name so it can't be traced. Sell on Ebay. That's how I see alot of this being done. In the last 10 years I've been in business I've come to view these guys as mosquitos. They buzz around for a while then see how much work it is with little pay and go out of business because they already have a day job.

I machined a oblong piece of delrin that the dust collector hose comes off on the side and clamps around the router. It has epdm fingers that come down a few inches on it. It's too big.

This machine has now run two batches of these banana lures in the past several months. The latest batch was 92 pc total. It hiccupped once in all those lures. Shut the computer down restart and back cutting again. That's 184 half shells. I am figuring roughly 3,000,000 lines of code just for this batch. All exactly identical. I load it, walk away and run something else while it's working. Dust collection has been an issue. Trying to dust collect while still having clearance around quick clamps etc has been a big problem.

Can you put an air vent in there? Could it be captivated air keeping the lead from filling out?

The voices tell me to

You do cad? nooooo Hi Dave hope all is well.

VIACAD 2/3D Version 8 just downloaded. Hope you pre-bought. $49 what a GREAT deal.

hp 6500 plus Best inkjet you will ever own. It's an all in one with a touch screen. Works on Airprint for iphones too. It takes individual color cartridges for every color just like my high end Kodak printer at the office.

Next time you pour try a hardwood stick. Birch, maple, etc. Stir your pot with it and the carbon off the wood removes impurities.

If you said wobble head to me then a wobblehead lure to me is a keeled tin lure that you stretch an eelskin over. Like this: This is normally used in saltwater. Some versions have a fixed hook in them.

I did some more work with the files today. I see alot of the time has to do with how the rough/finish stage is setup. I got an idea today to eliminate the rough pass and just go straight to finish. It's only a .650 thickness. No sure if it's going to let me do that. Definitely try that program Bob it's very intuitive in how it works and you go go forward and backward in each "step". Each of their "steps" is something like stock size, roughing parameters, finish parameters, cutout, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNt1yuaUK28&feature=player_embedded

More pics of this bait so you can see what the machine does. Will have a video in a while.

Bob and Dave...you guys thanks very much for your input on this mess. Today everything clicked together and I got some of the first 3d stuff done. Wrong bit right now, speeds and motions are going to be enhanced ALOT, I think I can get these down to 3-4 minutes finished. I have been working on this for almost 6 months. Bob I picked up Vectrics3d...check it out. It's the missing link to post process files... First one.. 2 sides done.. Quick sanding. I now have a GOLDEN BANANA LOL

Wood species varies from pine to cedars to birch and maples. Finish is dependent on how you run the machine. If I want to run it wide open it's going to give a much rougher cut. A slower speed will give you a cut that requires only 120 grit paper to sand. Like this: That's a bit over 7000 rpm, cutting at 4 speeds in the program as you can watch from the speedups and slowdowns. Yellow Birch rough to finish one pass with 2 axis. This particular body can be done pretty efficiently and doesn't need the whole machine. I can do these in 14 seconds each un-sanded with a 80-100 grit sand finish needed or I can slow it down a bit and save some time sanding like this. Tooling is all carbide. This particular bit has over 1000 bodies on it already and is just starting to get dull. No hard crashes though.

Straight right now through a frequency drive with the computer controlling motion and speed via modbus. Am searching for a high speed servo (inexpensively) to change this to. Then I can just add another servo drive and eliminate the external drive wiring. Put a router or drill on the back axis I ran about 30 lures this afternoon just playing around. This thing is sweet. The old lathe was 1.5 hp this one made a huge difference in speed and vibration/quality of cut. All of the original prep work of setting up the base square etc came out here. I can hold a .004 tolerance between the two machines on bodies. Not bad. The difference is this machine is much cleaner....it don't bog at all. This is also turning at 60% speed right now which is 3450x2, roughly 4500 rpm? Didn't calculate? Difference is when I turn the speed up I will bring the spindle up to 8000 and then can run the servos at a better speed. The one issue I see here is how I encode my G code. Am going to have to use actual cad/cam to make a file now so it's linear movements, with constant velocity all the axis should move all the time. Right now it's g0 and g1 codes to points and the finish file is just a load of g1 movements.

Even better Dave.. 5 axis These are first shots. Lots more to do.

First chips in 2 axis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVCisII8Bhc

This is just for circular bodies. Rear axis is rough and front axis is finish. It ran a program for a 4.5" lure this morning in 18 seconds complete..smokin!

Got the spindle wired completely and working off the computer now through the variable freq drive. Full estop and everything. Calibrated all the axis today. Got to finish the cutter bit holders and we're making some chips.

4 axis up and running today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiDyBhlgNUg

you can never hit estop fast enough This machine has limit switches on all the axis. Should eliminate some crashes..