Cooking up a goose-shaped chair with CNC precision
Serves: One large stuffed goose and its human caretaker
Total Time: Several days of design, machining, and assembly
For Make Something Big week, I decided to craft a goose-shaped chair for my large stuffed goose. I began by designing simple goose shapes and rectangular bars in Fusion 360. Transitioning from Onshape was challenging and took a lot of time, but I learned a lot. In hindsight, I could have imported my Onshape file directly.
Following the machining steps outlined by Anthony, I prepared my wood, added dogbones, set the right tools, and stapled everything to the CNC machine. Watching the pieces get cut out was incredibly satisfying, though removing them from the wood took patience due to all the connecting tabs.
Assembly required brute force, a mallet, a hammer, and a lot of hope. Anthony helped a lot, as I am not the strongest. After some effort, the goose chair came together! Transporting it to class and home was an adventure (with only minor injury), but now my goose sits majestically in my room, surveying the kingdom with an air of royalty.