Machining EVA Foam tool organizers with inexpensive cutters

[CullenS (Cullen Simpson)]

I don’t think my foam was quite as rigid as yours

What did you cut on your Shapeoko/ Nomad today?

I finally cut the foam insert I bought for the drawer I added under the machine. The foam is 18x45+ so too long to cut in one section. I didn’t want to pull the machine away from the wall so I did a poor man’s tiling job. I designed the whole layout in a single file and then picked a spot to split it. Created 2 smaller sections and rotated one 90 degrees and the other -90. Then loaded the material and let it hang out. [image] It turned out nice but I had to pause the jobs a million times to …

I used the Amana 51404-k bit and it produced pretty nice cuts. This foam was in layers with glue between so you could in theory cut the perimeter and then peel up the layers to the depth you desired. In practice it didn’t peel that well so I just cut pockets to the depth I wanted. Only issue was when one of the pockets was at the exact depth of a glue layer. It was a little messy then, other than that the bottom and the top cut cleanly.