Woodworking

It's a DeWalt router and stepper motors on a V-Slots structure. The X and Y axes move with timing belts and the Z axis with a lead screw. The design was inspired by the Ooznest Ox.

The assembly was pretty simple, it's only V-Slots, laser cut plates, wheels, screws, and T-Nuts.

At the beginning, we thought the electrical box was the problem. The drives were overheating even if we were using a fan, so we though the box was overcrowded. It turned out that we needed a big fan even when the box was open which doesn't make sense. The cheap drives we bought were the problem. We bypassed the problem for a while thanks to the cold winter in Québec.

The machine has a 1 m by 1.5 m cutting area. We use a sacrificial MDF board to screw or nail the wood down and to machine all the way through the part. When it's too damaged, we just replace it.

The wood dust was a big problem, so I've added this vacuum system. It works perfectly and the machine even built it itself!

This was a crazy project. One of our friends wanted to plane a timber, but didn't have a planer. It took a while, but we managed to plane it!

My bowtie project started by making one single bowtie for Richard-Alexandre and posting a picture on Facebook. It became viral and everyone wanted one!

I use these bowtie clips to make it easy to attach.

After the bowties, I've decided to make some ties. They are cut in sections, so they can bend to fit your body curves. For this one, I laser engraved dinosaurs for one of my co-workers. He worked on the Jurassic Park movies and is a real dinosaurs fan.

I wanted to find a way to attach the mobile to the crib without damaging it. This is the best solution we found.

I asked my mother Hélène D'Arcy to draw some fun characters for the mobile.

I'm very happy with the result. So far, it has been used by my nephew Xavier and my niece Béatrice.

This is a passive speaker made with 4 layers of wood fixed together with glue and biscuit joiners.

We can't see it on the picture, but there is a magnet hidden behind to catch the falling bottle caps.

To make a clock, just machine a pocket behind to fit the off-the-shelf mechanism. For the front part, I could have painted the drawing, but I didn't trust myself, so I machined the drawing and then glued the 3D printed drawing in there.

I wanted more space on my desk so I made this laptop stand with my CNC. I didn't think about the fact that my G-Code was written one layer at a time instead of one hole at a time. For most of the parts it's not that bad, but with that many holes, machining this part took a long time.

When my nephew Xavier was born, my sister needed a baby gate for the stairs, so I made her one. They are still using it for Béatrice, Xavier's younger sister.

Richard-Alexandre and I made this bookshelf using a table saw and a lo t of biscuit joiners.

I took a woodworking class with Kyna and Richard-Alexandre at Allied Woodshop. We each made a cutting board.

Fun fact, this table saw can detect if a finger is touching the blade (by conductivity) and stops immediatly if it does. It breaks the blade, but your finger is all right! That also means that if you need to saw a piece of wood with nails (conductive), don't forget to bypass this feature or you will have to get a new blade.

Sanding is boring, but it's one of the most important part of woodworking.