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New Jukebox - Wurlitzer style - Spring construction has begun!
mccoy178:
I am indeed reusing the cerwin vega's. Today I made the shelf for the touch screen and drew up how I wanted the bubbler area to look. The only issue I continue to mess up is the ribs that hold the top together. They are a small footprint, so at least making them three or four times isn't using a lot of material. I kept the touchscreen 1/4" from the front in order to have room for the plexiglass. Here are some progress pics:
mccoy178:
Well, I was hoping to have one whale of an update tonight, but the machine is still cutting. All day yesterday I thought and thought about the bubbler area and how I wanted it to look. During the early evening into the night my mind churned. Even as I went to the movies with the wife and then on to bed I thought. I almost had it. Then, around 4am, I woke up with the idea in my head. It took my about four hours tonight to draw the idea and get the tool pathing done properly, but I will say this, I am very excited to see the results. I doubt the machine will be done for another couple hours, so I'm going home. I will throw a pic of it cutting, but no major updates until tomorrow night.
mccoy178:
Here are a couple cutting pics. I don't know if they can be seen or not, but the first two pics are of all the guide holes that will hold everything together. You can see where I started off with the wrong bit and thought I was going to burn the whole gig down. The last pic is of where progress was when I left.
javeryh:
Awesome. So you can design the thing on the computer and the CNC machine will cut everything out exactly? I assume you can check on the computer to make sure everything will line up once cut? That is so cool. I've never seen one of those things in action before... It would take me months to do what you have done in a few days... :cheers:
mccoy178:
--- Quote from: javeryh on July 14, 2008, 10:45:21 am ---Awesome. So you can design the thing on the computer and the CNC machine will cut everything out exactly? I assume you can check on the computer to make sure everything will line up once cut? That is so cool. I've never seen one of those things in action before... It would take me months to do what you have done in a few days... :cheers:
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There are a couple of ways of accomplishing this. First, which I am hoping to do in the future, is to design everything in a CAD program like Sketchup, Autocad, ProE, etc., flatten the parts out, then cut them out. Second, the way I am doing it now, is to design it flat piece by piece and hope that the measurements come out. So far so good.