Living the dream tonight. The MPCNC is running (quietly) on the far side of the shop and the chips are flying from the chainsaws on the other side.
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That spindle looks familiar…
I’m pretty impressed with it’s performance. Knowing the RPM is so much lower than the Dewalt and the wattage is what - 15% less? I did not adjust my speeds and feeds at all from the Dewalt settings and it’s handling the wood like a champ. Event the knots - and there are two good sized knots - one 2" and one over 3".
New project underway on the other MPCNC. 480 carousel horses, six at a time. 2 1/2 minutes per horse…
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What tool are you using to cut those out?
This is my 2.8w JTech machine. The paper is gloss coated 80lb cover weight and it takes 2 passes at 8.5mm/s to cut through enough that the char JUST holds them in place when I take the sheet out but a little bend or shake and they for the most part fall out. I find it cuts hotter where there is toner vs the virgin paper surface. Interesting tidbit…
Oh, and it needs air assist otherwise it’d need 3 passes. I’ll have a finished product this weekend to share - I’ll post it. Hopefully it works out as planned. The MPCNC is saving my customer about $600 because I’m able to do this for her. I’m only charging $10hr for the runtime (21 hours) which I know should be higher but it’s such a slow laser I’m ok at that rate for now. I can see myself upgrading at some point but likely only to a 10 or 15w. Can’t recall what the chinese lasers are these days.
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Oh - the “living the dream” post from above there…here’s the finished product…the customer picked it up on the weekend.
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So much beautiful stuff happening here.
Congratulations, you’re probably the one who manages to make the most out of his machine in here. Keep it up!
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I had to use a chainsaw for a few hours yesterday, I tried to bring out my inner Kelly when I was just about done…not so much. I just ended up with a few random lines not where I wanted them. I couldn’t even get a decently smooth surface (I might have destroyed my blade though) Makes your work that much more impressive!
What? No pictures?
Yeah! I wanna see that blade! 
Until proven otherwise, I assume you used something like this one: Chainsword
They probably took his phone when they wheeled him into the ER.
So, no pictures. 
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HAHAAA, I was cutting tree roots out and I really hope to never have to do that again! I got all the large one out that stuck up and there was a big mostly flat one I though “maybe I will just carve a little V1 in here after I make a nice smooth surface” Nope, I gave up real fast. It was a plug in chainsaw I don’t want picture proof I was not using a real gas powered saw. 14A saw is pretty beefy though, did way better than expected, and new it cost as much as renting one.
That reminds me. I still need a replacement battery for my saw.
Would you believe that eagle carving there was done 100% with battery powered saws?
Amazing! Now that I have a chainsaw, I will revisit a little carve but I probably need a new blade or get this one sharpened.
Maybe you should put it on some conduit attach some steppers to it.
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Interesting, I like the sound of that, maybe print some of the supporting part, well most of them even…
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You could call it, “Mostly Printed Chainsaw New Cutter”!
Somewhere in the YouTubeiverse there is a robot arm chainsaw carving a chair. Kinda crazy. There’s also a guy in the eastern US that was it maybe still is using a big CNC to rough out bear blanks that he finishes with a saw.
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