G10 Knife Scale Production Workflow on a Shapeoko 3 XXL

[@mercutiojb]

Really great video, thank you!

[@spacegoonstudios]

Thanks for the kind words. Keep watching this space. I've got big plans and my videos keep getting better!

[@jkepps]

Excellent video! I just started with my Shapeoko 3, and you've helped me a ton with this video!

[@spacegoonstudios]

Very glad to hear it. The Shapeoko 3 is a fine machine. I'm hoping to do more videos on it soon but if you've got questions in the meantime, don't hesitate.

[@supermannyg3]

Thank you so much for making this video. I trying to scale my knife making business and I'm struggling with product. This may be a way forward to me. Thanks

[@spacegoonstudios]

It takes a lot of behind the scenes work to get everything set up to do it this way but once you do, there's no going back

[@CreatedWorkshop]

I've honestly been wanting to get into trying to make a set of scales for my Civivi Elementum, but didn't know where to start or if the Shapeoko would be a good tool for it. Thanks for the video! Now to either find a SVG of the scales or just make one myself!

[@spacegoonstudios]

Shapeoko can definitely handle it depending on which material you intend to use. It required quite a bit of trial and error to get the speeds and feeds dialed in for G10. I even made an aluminum set (which is another video on my channel) which turned out okay and would've been perfect if I'd had another piece of material to experiment with. As for an SVG, take a picture of the current scales and trace them. If you include a scale in your picture, you can get them pretty darn close to actual size from there and then scale your SVG to fit, if that makes sense.

[@CreatedWorkshop]

@@spacegoonstudios All great ideas! I'd use wood (I love the way wood scales work) so my speeds and feeds should already be dialed in there, and I'll just have to figure out the toolpathing! Thanks for the tips! I've got Fusion like you used, though I hate doing toolpathing in fusion😂 I'll probably work out the design within Fusion and then move over to whatever CAD/CAM program I'm using at the time (I switch often...I need to just find one and stick to it)

[@johnarvanitis359]

Do you have a video of the CAM steps for your scales?

[@spacegoonstudios]

I don't. It would have been a really long video though. There was a bunch of iterations. Basically, a surface pass for overall height. Then a 2D contour halfway down. Then bores and counter bores. Then edge chamfer, then a final 2D contour to cut them out. Most everything was 90ipm at 15k rpm and a 0.020" stepdown