Thank you very much for your kind words, but I'm far from a professional. I'm just a retired guy in a shed who is having the time of his life. If this mini-series of videos has helped you with a 2-sided project, then I've done my job. Thank you!
I just had an AH Ha moment on two-sided CNC routing. Your explanation on how to drill the index holes. It finally clicked. Thanks for your great videos. I have learned more from your videos than from any other source. Keep up the good work.
Mark: Most excellent video. You're presentations are outstanding! Clear, concise, on point, and toned down so us newbies can easily understand! Please, keep the video's coming!
I am in the process of setting up my Onefinity X50 and whilst not new to CNCs (had Biesse point to point commercial machines in the late 80s) I am new to VCarve Pro which has a significant learning curve attached to it and having explored a number of the tutorial videos offered on RU-vid yours are head and shoulders above the other offerings in their pace and content. I include Vectric's tutorials in this as well. I will be working my way through your content and looking at your old "live" sessions which are hard to join from Aus. Thanks and hope you get as much out of making then as I do watching them.
Perfect addition to the training videos that are on the Vectric site. Watching both the Vectric and Mark's videos are the way to go for anyone using the VCarve or Aspire software.
Thank you very much! I very much endorse Vectric's tutorials. They're the main way I learned to use the software. They have to cater to all skill levels, however, and can't take the time to break down the steps for folks who have never done this before, while I can. I've never tried to take the place of the Vectric tutorials - I'm just trying to augment them for the beginners.
Kamani is absolutely glorious wood, and it carves beautifully. It was very hard to find when we lived there from 1994-1998. The Kamani I have came from a huge branch that blew out of a tree on our street during a storm. We lived on Oahu at Wheeler Airfield, and the whole length of our street was lined on both sides with Kamani trees. I wanted to score some Mango too, but couldn't get my hands on any. I wish I still lived there, as I know where the engineers at the airfield throw all of the trees they cut. They just pile them up to sit and rot away. If you have a saw mill and can get access to any of the military bases, you might talk to the engineers and see if you can get your hands on some of that wood that's salvageable. When we left the island, there was a huge amount there, ranging from entire trees that were toppled in storms to trees that needed to be removed for other reasons.
@@MarkLindsayCNC oh MAN!!! Good score. Excellent story behind it too. When I was stationed in Okinawa I shipped home a log of okinawa pine. Also scored a bunch of random hardwoods from east Africa And some olive wood from Cyprus. Collecting lumber on deployment. 🤷♂️
Thank you for the 2 part series on 2-sided machining. I got more from your series than I did the Vectric LTD. series! Very informative and easy to follow!
Great, I was able to watch before we left on our trip. You cleared up my problem understanding the dowels. I feel like I can do this now with no problems. Thank you.
Thank you very much! There are a couple of things you have to pay attention to, but it is actually easier than it first appears. Once you do a couple and get the hang of it, you'll wonder why it looked so intimidating.
Hi Mark, greatings from germany. I'm happy to find your fantastic videotutorials. Your videos help me alot to set my ideas in the reality by using VCarve Desktop. There are very less german tutorials available. To see and to discover the options of the soft- and hardware is much better to understand for me, than to read the instructions. I use a Stepcraft 840/2 and i'm happy with it. Since 4 weeks i'm using this Vectric software. Before i did 2d-jobs to produce decoration things or gifts. Now it becomes an other quality. Thank you very much for your detailed explanations in all your videos. Keep it up. Greatings, Frank
Thanks for taking the time to teach us your wisdom. I've been wanting to learn how to do this for so long and now I believe I can do it easily. Well done as always Mark.
I feel like i'm about to start binge watching your videos Mark! They take the fear out of CNC projects and so awesomely informative! I'm becoming a huge fan just can't grow a stash like that!
Thank you, Joni! That's probably the #1 cause of confusion for folks trying two-sided machining for the first time, with the locating dowel placement running a very close 2nd. I hope it clears up any confusion. Thanks for checking it out!
Mark thank you again for another fine set of videos explaining how to do a two sided project. I don't have Aspire but you indicated this can be done in VCarve Pro so when I get started in the next day or two, I hope I can make it work like you did with vCarve. I think you covered most of what I will need to know with the exception I will need to make a small roundover at the top of a pocket. I am not quite sure how too do this, but I think it will require me to use a molding profile. I guess I will find out. Plan on looking at how you use the molding profile and see if I can apply to my project. Thanks again.
These turned out beautiful, Mark. Although I'm not a tea drinker, I can see this being very useful for Mason jars. My late wife was an herb nut, and she would have loved to have jars with these lids for each kind she used. Your double sided macining turorials were great, and I will use what I learned. And I agree that using auxiliary spoilboards are the way to go. Thanks.
Good stuff, Mark. Great process lesson and project idea. I'm going to see if I can knock out a variety of these before our annual food and craft Christmas show. I think popular teas and herbs might do well - plus offer custom. Thanks!
Thank you, Jim. These lids were certainly NOT my idea, but I have to admit that I'm a bit surprised at how folks reacted to them. Everyone seems to love them. Good luck with the show!
I've shown that process in several videos, but not one of its own. I show it in this video I did on 2-Sided Machining. Just scrub forward to the 51minute, 19 second mark, and I go through the whole thing there. Here's a link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qsTdCdelBkg.html In this second video, I show how I machined the project, to include the tool changes. Here's a link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UhIaC-ApL9M.html I hope this helps!
Hello. Thanks for making this video and sharing your knowledge. I've watched several of your videos and I greatly appreciate what I'm seeing and learning. I do have a question about your Touch Plate. Your Touch Plate appears to have surfaces that could be used for indicating X, Y and Z surface when needed. Can you please tell me more about that specific Touch Plate, or where can I purchase one? Thanks, Walt (Seattle, WA)
Thank you for your kind words. I now use a different touch plate most of the time, however the one used in this video is called the Triple Edge Finder, and I got it through The Makers Guide. Here's a link: www.themakersguide.com/home/products/triple-edge-finder-2
If you follow the same steps to the letter, there's no difference. The main thing is to remember which way you set the file up to be flipped, and flip it that way.
Mark what a fantasic video could not get my head round two sided machining but you made it look so easy carnt wait to try over next week. Quick question what was the curved sander did you use in the video
Ahhhhh - ok, gotcha. That's called a Sanding Mouse. It's just a plastic-covered foam block with hook and loop fastener on the bottom and sides, designed to use a standard hook and loop sandpaper disk - the kind you use on a random orbit sander. I hand sanded inside the dish shape. Here are some links: 5 inch - amzn.to/36dHj3B 6 inch - amzn.to/2AC6mSh
How would you handle the dowels if you were machining a batch of these? Is there a simple way to preserve those same dowel holes in the spoilboard for each ?? Thank you!
That's an interesting question. I think the hard part would be making sure you got the material in exactly the same place every time you went to run the project. I guess you could come up with a removable jig that would place the bottom left corner of the material in the same spot every time, and try it that way. It might be worth experimenting on with some scrap wood. Thanks for the idea!
Thanks! That’s what I did and it worked perfectly. As long as my material was all the same and square. The one problem I am having, unrelated to this video, is I need to pocket out the bottom of a small tabletop while also carving out the legs. I am using a 1 1/4” tray bit. How can I pocket all the way to the border of the material without it leaving a lip?
If I understand you correctly, you want the pocket to go all the way out passed the edge of the piece. Just draw the pocket vectors to go out beyond the edge at least half the diameter of the bit you're using and you'll be fine.
The X and Y zero positions don't change just by moving the gantry manually. Any machine will return to the X and Y zero you set when you tell it to. Those zero positions don't change.
I have to much trouble with two sided machining. I learned more about the wood then when to drill the holes into the waste board and from which side of the project. I am assuming that I use the holes copied from side one to side two and drill the holes into the spoil board without any other piece of wood on the spoilboard, then insert the dowel pins then attach the board you are cutting. You do not show this step or talk about it you just show some drilling into the spol board. This can be important step as to when to drill the spoil board and from which side of your tool path you use top or bottom. Yes it is difficult to keep it straight when you are trying to film it. I have learned A LOT off of your video's but this one still leaved me lost. Thanks
