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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:35 pm
by tito
What exactly is a CNC machine?
I'm glad to hear the C64 is up and running
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:49 am
by johnhall
This is a machine that roughly resembles a giant ant farm, except that it's primed with highly skilled termites. There's a place to insert wood and after awhile a guitar emerges. It's a win-win situation; the workers get a fine meal and we get a guitar.
You'll find photos of one of our machines
here. Looking at this page, I'm thinking we might need to detail this operation a bit more as the termites really crave publicity.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:15 am
by shinynewtoy
John...
With all due respect, no more visits to the finish department without your gas mask!!!
Just kidding... incredible site! It's a treat to see just what goes into making these incredible instruments!
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:41 am
by wayang
The wood shop I worked at as a designer bought two Shoda CNC's in 1989 (Old Dude paid cash!)...I was just getting Autocad together, and suddenly I had to start thinking about 'toolpaths'...CNC's are very cool, but programming mistakes can produce quite dramatic results...
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:24 am
by jingle_jangle
...like this?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:33 am
by jwr2
I worked on a cnc back in the early 70's ... except it was for metal and not wood ... it was controlled by a pick tape with holes in it ... cnc means computer numerically controlled if I remember correctly ...
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:05 am
by wayang
Paul, those are...dramatic...
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:14 am
by jingle_jangle
I dunno what happened, Dane. They were fished out of the wreckage of an old
dacha near Chernobyl last year.
They glow in the dark with an eerie radiance.
This is what Chernobyl Chicken Soup looks like, BTW...
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:23 am
by wayang
That's enough to make a cannibal throw up his hands...
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:42 am
by bob_the_bass
His hands ? His guts more like !!
Thats the effect it just had on me !
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:12 am
by jbarnes
Paul,
You are cold dude...................
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:34 am
by jingle_jangle
Comrade, cold dude, warm soup.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:53 am
by britye
Looks like the dude got his fingers hooked up with the CNC machine
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:37 am
by jingle_jangle
Nah, Bri--those are chicken fingers. Near Chernobyl, every chicken has hundreds, if not dozens.
And the fish sticks are bifurcated, too.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:43 pm
by longhouse
Any excuse to work the term 'bifurcated' into conversation...
It pops up in the Native American artifact lexicon also, Paul.
Noel