I'm a toolmaker by trade. Doesn't matter if it's a mill, lathe, CNC, or laser... I'm on edge the whole time. I guess it keeps you safe though!

Most people in the 3D printing or hobby machining world probably don't have use for an actual sketch. It's very useful when trying to communicate a part to another party though, obviously. Plus how cool is it to have a folder full of sketches of things you've made?

I'll have to give that a try next time. I think the key is the 0 flute.

It's definitely the long way around but I believe it's the easiest way to explain.

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

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.

Great. Let me know if you have any questions.

It really would. Great idea!

Elemental sword would be neat. It's either that or the moonlight greatsword from dark souls.

You know, it's funny, back in the day we farmed that peninsula right outside kamadan for them and never got one... today when I was looking at the wiki to get an image to use, I noticed that the peninsula wasn't listed as a location. Go figure.

hmm.. as far as I remember it, the axes were not tied to a specific location in nightfall. I'm not a 100% sure but I recall getting these as a drop from multiple zones, mainly Plains of Jarin and Fahranur.

Plains of Jarin. That was the one. Huh, wonder why it never dropped for me. I was using 55 monk for hours and hours. Just bad luck I guess.

RNGsus is not always a homie. but well, now you got it anyway.@@spacegoonstudios

I've made knives before. When I make the miniatures, I have to kind of disconnect from that and realize real world design considerations don't matter. I've got a new video being edited right now that kind of drives that point home as it's a very impractical project.

That's correct. The other half of it is the aluminum oxide. The wavelengths of the laser can't seem to make it through the oxide layer, which forms near instantly on bare aluminum surfaces.

I use Amana Spektra cutters from toolstoday. Mostly 2 flute.

You can engrave/mark clear acrylic there's lots of different ways to do it so just search it and see which works best for you...the popping was probably micro fractures a sign to turn your settings down 😉

I've messed with that head and dovetail a few times, mostly to check if the thumb screw has damaged the soft metal enough to cause an issue. Nothing has really helped too much and when I get the time I'm going to rework the whole thing.

Mine wouldn't tighten at all but had seen on another channel that it was a spring loaded knob . Hope you get it worked out, that would be really annoying

Ah yeah. Mine is an older design. There's no spring. It's just a screw with some knurling on the head and then threaded in. There's a guy online that sells a replacement/upgrade that I'm going to look into once I decide to upgrade to limit switches on the x and y axis.

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

It's a Shapeoko 3 XXL with a pwncnc 1.5kw spindle.

@@spacegoonstudios Thanks. This is very helpful.

Thanks, I found it on the Incompetech website. Using music in my video was an experiment. I'm very pleased you gave feedback. I'll include some in my future videos as well, thanks to you.

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

I have a lot of viewers from India and I'm very glad for it. Thanks for the kind words.

That's an excellent idea. It's going to the top of the list.

The technical term for a Torx drive is hexalobular. "Hexa" meaning six and "lobular" meaning lobes. Hexalobular means six lobes.

Thanks buddy. I'm planning on making the next one even better. Stay tuned.

@@spacegoonstudios I loved how you detailed all the nitty details and also how you improved as you were going!

Thanks kindly.

Better is subjective. The XTool software is fine to get started with and has no problems with simple projects. The moment any kind of complexity is added, Lightburn starts to shine. It's initially harder to set up and it can be overwhelming but the amount of features give you the ability to do just about anything you can come up with. Whether it's worth it or not depends on what you plan to do with your machine.

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.

@@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)

Some people do cut them by hand. In order to produce as many as we needed, it had to be done this way. The main advantage is that each set is identical though, which means that a replacement set in another color will fit the blade just the same as the original set. Check out Makers Knives on Instagram to see the finished product.

@Space Goon, Thnk you for the explanation! I will check the site out. I love knives!!! LOL

It's very doable. Lots of trial and error involved though, as far as feeds and speeds are concerned. And, it is very hard on the tools so you have to replace them fairly often. Whatever you get into, just make sure your dust collection is on point. You don't want to breathe G10.

Yeah, I've got a bit of vibration and chatter. I'm thinking of dialing the feed back a little to help with that.

@@spacegoonstudios It really didn't look or sound that bad. I will i was doing 200ipm

You're your is out of tune 😁

I've seen mention of 0-flute. I'll have to give one a try the next time I get my hangs on a slab of aluminum. I think my problem was that when I told Fusion to ramp... it did the whole pass ramping instead of entering with a ramp to 0.010" and staying at that depth. So by the time I finished a contour pass, it was probably trying to take a 60 thou chip.

I agree o flute is the way to go this come from me melting aluminum and coated my bit with molten aluminum.