Kitchen Supply Organizational Device:
This week, we addressed CNC machining with OSB (oriented strand board). Given the inherent meh material qualities of the OSB, I decided to develop a milling approach, which would produce something useful and fitting for a meh material. Deep down beneath my sink, there was a vast archive of parchment paper... aluminum foil... plastic wrap... and the likes. It was time for innovation. Through this sophisticated kitchen supply organizational device, I would be able to address pressing matters beneath the sink. Simultaneously, OSB would find a comforting home, hidden within a cabinet (but useful). The device depended upon simple pressure fit joinery through a pocketing operation. The piece was optimized for a single bed of 18x24 inch material.
For milling, I used the ShopBot in the Harvard Science Center shop, fitted with an 1/8 inch upcutting endmill. Compared to machines I had used in the past, I had expected a much larger endmill to act as the workhorse. To my surprise, however, I found the shopbot and the 1/8 inch endmill to be terrific workhorses for smaller pieces. The ShopBot software was also half decent and much more intuitive than RhinoCam for instance.
Much Cooler Project From Previous Year (Guitar Build):
Just because... I also wanted to share images from a thinline, semi-hollowbody guitar that I've been working on over the past year or so. The parts all began from rough-sawn lumber or smaller stock. I hunted down a six-quarter board of figured black walnut, with a bark inclusion that I felt was very compelling. I developed a 3D model to transform this stock into a thinline-body guitar, which is milled from a solid board or laminated boards rather than constructed like a traditional hollow-body. In my case, this allowed me to showcase more of the material. The neck was milled in black walnut, with a slotted headstock (similar to what many find on a classical guitar). The knobs, fretboard, bridge, and pickguard were milled from ebony. With luck, I'm hoping to wrap this project up sooner than later!
