This CNC Plasma Cut Blew Us Away

[@Jacob-5949]

No post powder coat photos? Projectgasm ruined. Absolutely beautiful work. I'm sure the customer loved it.

[@caracarametal]

wow, that's like laser quality cut! you've got your cnc plasma dialed in!!!

[@LiftArcStudios]

Spike is a beast on that thing and also ShopSabre rules

[@roberta4989]

Wow, beautiful rendering of the home. Spike earned his keep on this one. Finally earned it! A friend told me to say that...

[@Kawika88]

Theses guys can do it all. The new shop is opening new ideas.

[@LiftArcStudios]

We're trying our best! Can't wait till we get into the new shop to show you guys all the new stuff we want to work on!

[@p.t.anderson1593]

I learned from someone here on KZbin about knocking the dross off with the cheapest Harbor Freight air hammer with the straight chisel bit ground off square. Go with about 20psi and use it like you were using the hammer and chisel in this video. I hit both sides with a 4" RO sander, 40 grit paper, after that. Once I tried the air hammer method I never looked back. In fact, I did a bunch today. Got lots more to do tomorrow.

[@LiftArcStudios]

That's super interesting, one of Aaron's deepest wishes is that @Harborfreight would sponsor us and if that happened we could absolutely test that out! I love the idea though!

[@neilf.7222]

Nice to hear Aaron describe the work. Spike, nice work on the CAD heavy design. I feel you, with some of the pieces I have made, folks don’t realize the time it takes to make a photo into a plasma cut part. Well done everyone.

[@curtiszeitelhack981]

Outta da park, Spikey! Nice work as the clean-up hitter, Aaron!

[@LiftArcStudios]

They're a good team for sure!

[@treetopflyersofva2]

That looked awesome with the green plasma table juice behind it. I bet a lot of thinking goes into something like that. Keep those videos coming and be careful.

[@LiftArcStudios]

Thank you! And safety first as always!

[@TomAlger.]

That’s beautiful

[@LiftArcStudios]

Thanks Tom!

[@Metaz]

Nicely done! Keep them coming! :D

[@LiftArcStudios]

Thank you! As long as you keep watching them, we'll keep making them!

[@AnneDunning-s3c]

Beautful, just beautiful. Given that it will serve in place of a railing, I appreciate the functional consideration of near-solid mass for most of the space. Presumably, the area of the sun is a location that rarely receives as many lateral challeneges as other locations on a rail will. This design reflects the spatial awareness of a trained architect. I love this type of 2-D work. I have dabbled in some artistic cutting of stone tile. It requires experienced appreciation of the strength remaining between cuts (or a lot of scrapped stone). I can see Spike creating Sabre designs for thin-wall holiday decorations you can print, stack, and stock until orders roll in. Black cat and black dog window hangings or yard stakes for Hailloween? Spike creativity, activate! Since river flooding came up in that other video's comments, I have had my head spinning for how Spike might use color laser etching to decorate flood panels, where piercing cannot happen.

[@mrdddeeezzzweldor5039]

Paint & rust stripping bonded fiber cups work great as a finishing pass for dross removal and work piece surface smoothing. Unremoved, high ridged dross can tear them up though.

[@justintasht1067]

Fantastic work spike outstanding 👍👍

[@richardcorwin1828]

Well done guys!

[@Ad3Collins]

Wow the detail with te shop saber is amazing great job guys .

[@TheBignick243]

Sounds like something like this could be useful for that content-mobile you guys recently picked up.

[@LiftArcStudios]

Oh please believe once we get into the renovation of the Magnivan we're going to have to make a bunch of custom parts for it

[@Cameronsteen]

Can spike do a video explaining his designing technique for this? Would be great!

[@Ladarian_]

Nice work. Could we get a clip of the collision? curious about the feature. Thanks!

[@franksmodels29]

Very cool great job 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@mkllove]

Very very nice ! Look forward to seeing it as installed post coating... Spike, I think if you could do this on a small scale as an experiment, and try making this with an illuminated clear/frosted plexi panel behind it ? Cut out small sections in plexi with gaps/paint or insulation so multiple led light colors might show thru for sun, sky, windows perhaps ? It could be backed with wood, or a reflective metal backing for mounting and stability.. Bet these owners would buy the test panel too if you made one ?

[@rickfazzini22]

Killer work fellas! These seem like jobs where the plasma table really shines. Have you guys cut much aluminum with the shop Sabre? How does it do? More or less dross? My son and I have a business making motorcycle parts but it’s all aluminum no steel. Thanks ahead of time👍🏻

[@LiftArcStudios]

We've done a bunch of stuff with aluminum as well, it's different power settings based on the different metals but it can absolutely handle it. This is just a completely informal observation but there tends to be a slight bit more dross on aluminum but not so much that you'd really notice it unless you were looking.

[@curtishatfield9629]

Great job os usual! Can spike please do a how-to in Fusion on creating tab and slot for fitting items together and how he adjusts the slot for a proper fit? Thank you for all your hard work in the shop and producing the videos. It's greatly appriciated.

[@57moto59]

Not all of us can afford a Shop Sabre, therefor I have a Langmuir Systems... With that many piercings, I would probably have had an "Arc Voltage Loss" errors and ruined that sheet! Sometimes It just doesn't restart correctly. My table works for little projects and making parts for stuff I'm building.

[@p.t.anderson1593]

I have a LS Crossfire Pro. Yesterday I did a job, multiple layered sign for a brewery, that had 73 piercings and a nine minute thirty six second run time with no issues. I am not using the Razor Cut45 anymore, too many problems. It never seemed very stable. I even took it in to have it repaired at the Jasic facility in Kent WA due to that repair bulletin, still had issues. I replaced it with an Arcfony (terrible name) Cut53N Pro about a year ago, from Amazon $330. It's been excellent. Once it figured out the correct pinout for the connector that goes to the LS control box it was perfect. One other thing to watch is to make sure that your pierce time is no less than .5 sec, ever. But that's because of Fire Control, not the plasma cutter.

[@57moto59]

@@p.t.anderson1593 Nice. I've been thinking of upgrading my Razer Cut45. It's a crap shoot on bigger projects!

[@PHILWORX]

It’s ah so nice 🎉

[@drak0v]

Missed oppurtunity to show us the finished product. Amazing job from the team though!

[@LiftArcStudios]

We'll have an update soon, the clients are sending us pictures once it's installed in their home.

[@Bagster-1]

Looks great, I would like to see the finished product. Safety first: that grinder spinning 5-8 thousand rpm’s shooting those little wires everywhere, you should have worn a full face shield and tuck in your shirt.

[@mintymoore6054]

The plasma cutter seems to have endless possibilities. Is Spike at one with the machine? 😁

[@nickmalone3599]

Should cover the software you use in the shop to make your projects, or at least add segments to each video about that side of the process. Also, you guys have the best music of anyone out there in your vids.

[@LiftArcStudios]

Thanks for the kind words Nick! We use a lot of CAD but we can definitely do a video in the future going over all the ins and outs of what Spike uses for everything.

[@randybradshaw7060]

How did you vectorize the painting? By hand or did you use software?

[@ionutmatiescu5963]

what substance do you put in the water?

[@J_bar_S_Photography]

Question for Spike. Would it be possible you give me the website that you use to vectorize pictures/drawing, or what have ya??

[@LiftArcStudios]

So, we should have filmed it but it was all custom work Spike did, he had to trace and create the art from scratch using OnRoute to make the vectors and then CAD to manipulate the vectors to have the correct spacing, cut in points, etc. when it went to the CNC table.

[@truethinker68]

Time for a fiber laser

[@rmkensington]

Trying to diagnose a fiber laser and repair them sucks

[@p.t.anderson1593]

@@rmkensington Man, when they are working right though... wow...

[@misterx243]

Please shut off that livestream stuff. Really really anoying. Already had 4 notifications of it...