I make a Danish cord stool that I hoped to make more efficiently on my S5P. I had previously played around with this on my old XXL but I didn’t find the precision/accuracy to be that helpful in improving the efficiency. So far the S5P is working out great. The cut was designed in Rhino/RhinoCAM as a two sided machining job with alignment pins to keep things in line. I still need to tweak some things to speed up the cut (currently 2.5 hours) but it is definitely saving me time so far. The mortise shoulder is completely square which is great and I can go right to the Domino to cut the loose tenon mortises.
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Looks really good! +1
PS. This is one of those projects that just begs for a wood lathe. Not only would it be much faster, it would waste less wood by starting from a square blank closer to the final dimensions.
Or at least rotate the two parts so as to have the taper allow for closer positioning.
I originally made it on the lathe but the time is less efficient shaping the top rounded part around the mortise shoulder which has to remain square. This is done with hand tools and in my experience took longer than the labor time it takes to cut it on the CNC. For this project I think CNC is the way to go. I do make a larger bench version of this that is all done on the lathe and it’s time consuming, but it does allow me to give the leg tops a little more shape in the process. I agree the wood waste is an issue but I hope to use a good amount of that on other projects.
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Yep, this would be a good tweak.