Coolest Shop Upgrade: Rotary CNC 4th Axis 

Congratulations on the rotary attachment. They provide a whole new realm of possibility and design creation.

Making those awesome handles truly showed how these rotaries can be utilized!

Very cool to see if in action on a larger machine! We run a custom build with a 4th axis and ran into many of the same things you mention. I'm glad to know we're not the only ones making some impressive messes, haha.

Interesting tool. Will be fun to watch you and others push the boundaries of what this tool can do. I am looking forward to seeing things such as cabriole legs with ball and claw feet.

That is pretty cool! Whole new dimension to what can be created!

Pretty impressive tool, Linn! Congrats! 😃 Beautiful work with it!!! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Thanks for the video. I think the advantage of the lathe is that you can turn items like your hexagonal screwdriver handles. I would love to produce carving around the wood, You could create a coold desk light with unique images on the stem. Thanks again for your videos.

Watching this for the rotary aspect but when you showed that iron wood and said it would be difficult with most tools I just gotta jump in and say...maybe not. If you had some sort of other lathe mount which could even be hand turned by someone else or a foot paddle like the old japanese style, an angle grinder with a three tooth carbide saw blade would make short work of making that round. I got one for my dewalt angle grinder a while back and it tears through wood like a beast, you could also try the I think it's brand name is sawzall, its a curved diamond or carbide toothed bowl like bit but again for the angle grinder and the coarse one is terrifyingly powerful, it's the sort of thing you would take to a fallen tree if you wanted to grind it into a canoe in a day. You might wanna look them up, I know the cnc would do it obviously but to save time some sort of quick clamp lathe outside the shop would round it out in about 5 minutes or less, probably much less, my triple tooth blade tore though a 3x10 (one side) in about 8 seconds.

Love this - thank you for sharing. Do you have any resources for the dust shoe / hose solution you use?

great info! I’ll have to consider a setup like this for my Shopbot! Thanks for sharing!

Just the video I have been looking for, I have been thinking about a CNC lathe but really with a 4th axis I don't need to one

Cannot wait to add this to my own AVID 5’x10’ machine.

Great video on the rotary. I like your controller. How does it control the CNC?

You can cut compound curves by hand on a lathe I have done it hundreds of times

Jag väntar på din nästa projekt. Bra jobbat 😀

Hi Darbin, Thank you for the really interesting video. I found this as I’ve been considering a CNC and the possibility of adding this kind of 4th axis. So a few things occurred to me which you might be able to help clarify or comment on, as maybe I’ve totally misunderstood what you can do with the 4th axis: First, if you have limited room around the chuck to safely avoid running the cutter or the spindle into it, is it possible to somehow fasten your workpiece onto something else that you can in turn mount in the chuck - Whether a piece of wood, or anything that would both fit in the chuck and give you a surface to fix your workpiece to? I was thinking this way you could access and cut all parts of your workpiece, so you avoid wastage. The other (main) question is does this limit you to cutting cylindrical objects (even if asymetrical) or can you use the chuck/4th access to mount big workpieces (if you have enough gantry clearance and an open frame below) but most of all, does it give you the ability to make what would be an undercut in your workpiece by means of rotating it? I’d had in mind a 4th axis not so much as an alternative to a lathe as such, but a means to overcome the XYZ movement limitation of only being able to cut downwards into your work - so as you rotate your workpiece (instead of the angle of the cutter), you can cut parts of the workpiece that would have been inaccessible to the cutter with just XYZ. Have I got this totally wrong, or can it be used that way if you view this as bringing the cutter to the side, rather than from above your workpiece. It’s hard enough to trying to think about this, so I’m not sure I’ve explained myself very well here. Hope this makes sense? Would really value your thoughts as this would be a real key feature of having a 4th axis on a machine 🤔

Thanks for charing this video 🌹🌹🌹

The modern version would be dont leave the ER40 collet key in. 2 flute nice for aly. Ive recked several 4 flutes on aluminium. will try the aspire trial edition rotary , been given some boxwood, thinking chess pieces. I would run my 4th as Y though, not sure if my grbl will do 4. Great job, love the work.

Really great video of the 4th axis. I came across an option of adding it to my cnc kit last night when looking to purchase a cnc and I had no idea, no clue what a 4th axis was or how it worked, would I need this axis if I don't know about it 🤔? So this video is like a "sign" for me to get it 🤣. Thanks for sharing this 👌🏻

Cool video! I'm about to upgrade to a larger CNC like the one you use, but I can't find a 4th axis on the Avid CNC site. Did you get yours from them, or from someone else? Does Avid CNC equipment generally accept 4th axis machines from other manufacturers?

Tack för inspirationen!!

Great in depth explanation. Thank you so much. SUB

very very nice , thank you !

Great video! I have been looking at rotaries for my Onefinity. 🎉

really cool!

what about off center turning on a traditional lathe??? I do it all the time.

When did you get this? 5 x 10. That’s large!

4th axis' is great for chess pieces for a project. im still looking for the right set to make with mine.

Hello, fantastic - congratulations Bay bay Caetano - fron Brazil

I need to add 4th axis to my cnc. I need to make handles.

Can it do spirals?

COOL

cool video ...

That's cool. But that iron wood was cooler.😍

Hai mam nicely explained 👍👍👍 Hans of you 👍

No need for this, however, it was very interesting!!

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