Workholding Devices on the CNC 

I usually don't comment (as English is not my birth language and as it is still easier for me to listen to it than being able to write it). I just wanted to thank you for all those greats videos for all those years. You make a fantastic job!!! Thanks for sharing it :)

First for all, after locking some of your videos I like very much your “flower screw nuts”. 🌺🌼 I know butterfly nuts but didn't know about flower nuts. 😉 The same I like all your shop and the idea of " dig" it into the ground, your practical ideas and the all-time improvement of your shop. 👍 I have grown up in the 50th and 60th in my grandfather’s cartwright shop. That was great. I could make my own toys and gewgaw by myself and “with a little help of my friend” (grandpa) very solid as other have had toys made from plastic that kept from Saturday to Sunday and my ones last for years. Later I became a toolmaker and a couple of years later an engineer. I still like the smell of wood and years ago, after spending my career in living and working around the world as an engineer I’ve also start to recollect machines and established a shop, but would need more space. My in 1888 born grandfather would have been so happy with your machines.

Dear Frank, in my opinion, means to me, you are the Bob Ross of woodworking! When I watch your videos, I can calm down, listen to your voice and admire what your creating! That makes me forget about a stressful day. So thank you for what you‘re doing! Greetings from Germany!

People sometimes complain that CNC machines take out the artistry of woodworking. Those holders you made were art in and of themselves.

Can definitely confirm it is Alder. Looks fantabulous as always!

Artistic, unique, patient, methodical and beautiful. As always, Frank! ❤️

I totally love every one of Frank's videos. I've watched so many of his videos multiple times. I'll watch this one again for sure, soon

Never cease to amaze me...your innovative thinking always shines. I always look forward to your videos. Thank you!

You are absolutely amazing. That’s a lot of work for a nine off, but for repeatable processes it’s perfect. 👌🏼 as always I picked up a lot. I’m still learning my way around aspire so it was cool seeing you use it for this simple task that would be next to impossible in other programs. Thanks.

Love your videos, Frank! I often return to them on high anxiety days for their calming properties. My partner and I always watch your new uploads together! Can’t wait for the next one.

It’s fun to watch you think about your shop from a production mindset instead of a laboratory mindset. Good work!

Frank, I may have mentioned this before, but you just work at a different level than most. Very nice, sir. Respect.

Frank is a literal genius. It's just unbelievable how he reasons through problems.

It's a blessing every time you upload

Sail on, O Frank. Really amazing work, and some of us are even more hopeful we'll also figure it out. You're very surefooted. Thanks!

Really enjoyed seeing this video as I was one of those on Instagram who commented. Was nice to watch the process you went through after asking everyone and seeing the finished results .

Love what you do Frank :)

its such a pleasure to watch these

Great video! I like that you used a cnc machine capable of doing extremely complicated tasks to do something simple and repeatable.

Frank, you are living my dream. I have a two car garage that my tools share with three bicycles, a snow blower and a leaf blower, needless to say that also blows. Wish I had your space then I would just need your talent for thinking outside the box. Love your tool collection. And the best part! You actually use them.

I like the simplicity of the finished carvings too, but I have to say, my favorite thing is your foley work. Thanks for the video!!

Hey Frank - looking forward to your ornament this year!!!

Holy smokes! Videos this often is like an early Christmas! Weeeeeee!

Simple is good Frank!

great work Frank

Thanks for the video Frank. Hope alls well, looking a little thin. Keep'em coming, really like watching your thought process and execution.

Awesome work Frank! 👍🏻👊🏻

Thanks for showing the CAM process, I would love to see you do a walkthrough of your take on CAD/CAM softwares that you use in your shop.

Sir, you do beautiful work. Thanks for sharing.

I love your videos their very entertaining and educational. Keep up the good work.

As always, brilliant woodworking. and video

Beautiful and I love your video style!

What he built is essentially a 2 piece milling vise (google image search that) but with the added advantage of a set of built in part stops. Very cool! Working from the center of square material is nice since you don't have to get the material or vise straight with the travel of the table (though its not that hard).

Frank - what a great video, I love the stop animation and the way this video is put together. Thanks for making the effort and you just got a new subscriber. Thanks man.

Frank, you would have made an excellent machinist. Would be cool to see you and Adam Booth (Abom79) do something together. Actually, This Old Tony isn't too far north of you (I think he's in BC). Same for AvE. Hell, Scott Wadsworth (Essential Craftsman) is right down the road in Roseburg. There is a lot of room for great collaboration work up in your neighborhood.

You're a treasure, Frank.

Great video, as always. I have good success using milliput to fill cnc sign inlay. I use a coat or two of sanding sealer before the milliput as insurance against any potential color from the milliput bleeding into the grain. Makes for a nice finished detail.

There. Now I can go to sleep... This video was my bedtime story! :-) Thanks, Frank. Always a pleasure!

thank you Frank.

nice work

I got the notification for this video while driving (don't @ me). I was feeling a bit anxious to begin with, so I pulled into a supermarket parking lot just to set aside time to watch. I find Frank's demeanor helps a lot.

exelente , que gran ventaja es tener un pantofrafo, saludos desde buenos aires..---excellent, what a great advantage it is to have a pantograph, greetings from Buenos Aires.

How about filling the initials with a colored apoxy to make it pop and keep normal use form damaging the engraving?

When wood working gets more precise than most metal working!

tenacious frank

Good job.

keep up the good work, praying for you, Christ be with you. 👍🏼

brilliant

This was a fantastic video... Please, please, please do more CNC japanese Joinery...And, Japanese joints.. No one does this

Tiffany & Co. is now among your advertisers. ;-)

Been a long time subscriber mainly due to ur cnc work. I run CNC machines for a living, this jig is super clever but one suggestion. If u set 0,0 at one of the corners that register against the fence u don't have to move to switch parts then u can set 0 once and just crank them out since that orientation can't change. Just a thought :)

greetings from argentina.,.,beautiful.,.,job

Now to add an inlay for the lettering. I'm thinking like they do on very high end pool cue sticks :-)

Can you make a video showcasing how you come up with designs such as those workholding devices? To a layman, it seems quite complex, but I'm sure if you broke down your train of thought while desgining it, it would be quite easy to follow and would give some incredible insight. Just a thought and you are literally the only woodworking channel I follow, yet I still love all your videos and look forward to them!

Beautiful work Frank. I am in awe of your videography You should put a Laser engraver on your Christmas list. It would have made short work of that job, with no risk of grain chipping or tear out (as long as the laser power is low enough to minimise burning).

Hey, it's Frank Makes.. do use the ad time to hit like, then watch. Never disappointed. 😎

Very cool! You should fill the letters with epoxy it would look dope as hell

The animations always grab me by the kishkas.

Nice clamping method...I'm going to try an integrate a clamping system right into the CNC table. Would like to do dovetails and such

Treasure and a genius! Always, always look forward to your videos. Do you think you could do a video of your CAD design procedures (like How to Fusion 360) please. Thanks.

I wish I had a quarter of Franks genius.

Sometimes I think you overthink things, but then it all turns out so wonderful. Thanks for all the great watching. Makes up for not having a shop of my own.

Frank you should make an exact replica of your trucks emblem on the CNC, coat it with clear epoxy resin then replace it with original emblem.

I said before I say again, that's a nice vice. And I think you'd be surprised how strong the X axis slide plate things are, especially because in simple translation you've got two of them, but most of the time you're dealing with a torque that engages all 4, plus the friction of the Y axis clamping is going to help too, that should be a really strong fixture and since one side is fixed it'll have a high positional repeatability which is perfect for 'production runs' like this. Then with the end engraving, that method really makes me want to try developing a Z axis touch sensor, it'd be a little spring piston you mount like an endmill, with a limit switch on the side. The Z axis moves down, once the finger touches the piece it stops going down, and eventually the finger moves up to activate the switch. By recording the Z switch point at the XY coordinate, you can map the position of a sphere using only 4 points, a triangle around the edge and a point inside the triangle. Given those points you can calculate the actual center of the sphere in XY, the actual height of the sphere in Z, the radius for generating your tool paths, aaaah I just want to make it! Obviously for things that aren't true spheres you'll need more points and the result will be an approximation but since a lot of your parts are turned on the lathe you can make a pretty good assumption they will be rotationally symmetric so you could map the arc along an axis and then triangle out the centering.

Would be really cool to see the turning holder you made with the skate wheels.

Cool affects it must take your hours to record and edit

very ingenious clamping, simple but effective. could u just use wing nuts ? instead of the hexes, would speed it up even further.

Hey Frank glad you finally switched over to Aspire!!!!!! Did you ever think about getting or making some wood burners with your initials? Very quick and easy to use. Thanks for the videos!!

Nice. Inlay some different colour wood in the initials?

When are you gonna build the vertical table for your cnc machine? The one that is on hinges like you had on your old cnc. Thanks for the great videos

What are your clamps called you show at the end of the video? Where do you get them? I like the direction they put pressure on the wood, Thanks PS. Amazing work!

What is the software used at the 42 second mark that shows the "animation" of the holding device being built?

Funniest line of the entire video..."I like that it's really simple." LMAO!!!

👍👍👍👍good

They look great, any chance we can buy one?

Hi! Nice videos! A piece of wood kicked me back on the table saw (I almost lose a finger) and I see you are not having the riving knife on yours. I wonder what precautions you take to don't get hurt. I am a noob in wood working and now I am kind of afraid to use the tool too. I would really appreciate any advice. Thanks!

Since you have the mallet in two parts, I wonder if it could give interesting results to have the mallet part hollowed out to some extent and filled with sand before reassembled to the handle? Give it the “Dead blow hammer” effect!

Epoxy would look great poured in the initials.

Hi Frank, where do you buy the plywood used in this project? Are they available in Portland area?

If this is going to be a continual product, how about setting up on the CNC to cut multiples at a time? If the time it takes to change stock is critical then doing multiples might make sense.

I like how it's really easy (laughing)

Will you share the file for the vise?

Was there actually a check out screen to purchase one of the mallets?

Hi Frank, did you say you're selling the mallets ? How could I buy one ?

Why not use a branding iron?

I think...if it were me, I'd likely have filled the text engraving with like...a colorized epoxy resin. partly to preserve the text lines from chipping and partly for ergonomics. looks like others have made this suggestion too.

I had wondered if you were going to contour the text to shape of the handle. Shame on me for even considering that you wouldn't. I do still standby the idea that you should have gone with the Kant twist clamp logo, though.

Don’t you mean ✝️H? Merry Christmas Frank.

Make a wood turned BB-8

branding iron , of your initials

can I buy a mallet? Seriously

maybe fill the initials with white paint

Там где буквы фрезерованые будет грязь накапливатся , можно залить это эпоксидкой

Hi Frank... Are you losing weight? Looking good sir!

Could you make all 5 platonic solids? The platonic solids are the only regular polyhedrons. A polyhedron is a 3D shape that is enclosed and made of polygons. If you want to know more about the platonic solids, here is the Wikipedia Page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid. The Wikipedia Page for each platonic solid should tell you plenty of information about them. If you're wondering what they are, they are the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron.

Can you make a wooden fake rubiks cube

Hi Frank, odnoszę wrażenie że Twoje pomysły prowadzą do absurdu. Aby zrobić drewniany młotek potrzebujesz CNC???? Chylę czoła przed Twoją pomysłowością, precyzją wykonania, doskonałym wyglądem ostatecznym, przebogatym parkiem maszynowym - ale czy o to chodzi w promocji pasji pracy w drewnie ????

Next time make a branding iron with your initials out of aluminum. Then use a torch to heat the aluminum

What's the purpose of having that great vacuum system hooked up to the CNC, of you never put the skirt on it and turn it on... Seeing the cuts after each pass is enough for us to understand what it's cutting, we don't need to see the tool head, plus having all that saw dust can cause problems with your cuts.

I sometimes see you holding your dust shoe on with clamps, and I realize you take it off often for videos... cos hovering brushes are boring. I can highly recommend the magnetic shoes from www.kentcnc.net. They attach strongly with magnets to an indexed plate clamped to the spindle so you can just pull it off. It's only a single 4" connection, but my whole system is 4" and it easily keeps up with 1/2" hogs and facemills.