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[jonister]

I spent a year on some age old CAD software for high school metals class and graduated to Rhino the next year. That stuff is FUN! Seriously I never would have learned so much so fast if my motivation hadn't been around fishing lures. 

[Vodkaman]

My professional experience was aircraft and automotive CAD design. Naturally, I expected lure design to be easy after my extensive design experience. Boy was I wrong. Lure design on CAD is far more difficult.

You can design something simple, especially if you let the CAD system's limitations define your design. BUT, to get exactly what YOU want is a lot more involved than I anticipated. And, that is just designing a simple shape, not including mouth, gills and fins, god forbid scales (which I have thought about but not tackled as yet)!

Dave

[Salty's]

On 1/21/2019 at 7:02 PM, CNC Molds N Stuff said:

We had a member here who built some of his own CNC wood lathes for his wood salt water plugs.  I can't think of the name at the moment.  I have one of his company hats around here somewhere too.  I just can't think of the name.  

He posted some videos at one time.  

I'd probably start by typing "CNC Wood Lathe" in my favorite search engine if I just wanted to buy one. 

I probably wouldn't convert one though.  Wood lathes really don't have all the hardware to move the cutter like a metal lathe.  I probably wouldn't convert a metal lathe either since it typically was ways and gibbs that could easily pickup saw dust, get all plugged up and then not take oil.  I'd probably build something.  I might take the spindle off a wood lathe or I might build one.  I guess it would depend on what I had and how I envisioned the machine working.  

Really I think for a post here a step by step tutorial might be a bit much to expect.  Its not outside of the realm of possibility, but I guess I'd first have to ask... how much do you already know? 

I could build one.  Not sure I would want to build one for somebody else.  If somebody else had shown they were taking the initiative to teach themselves something and learn a little bit about CNC machine building I might jump in and try to help when they hit a snag.  

~~~~ Salty ~~~~  That's the fellow who posted some videos of CNC wood lathes he built.  It might have been before the searchpocalypse when the forum got reindexed and posts before a certain date became unsearchable.  You might be able to find them by using a Google Site Search of this site.   He has a website and a web forums.  You might ask him if he has links to his old videos that he posted here.  saltwaterplugs.com I think.    

 

 

 

 

SHOW ME THE MILLION FIRST 

 

Small unmarked bills preferred. 

 

Everyone wants to be like Salty.

 

I'll sell you my business for 1/2 of that. You too can then learn how to lose a half million bucks in the fishing industry.  Further comments redacted because Curt would delete. 

Edited January 26, 2019 by Salty's