Breaking Away From Fragile Veneers
Richard Benscoter, founder of Mariners Woodshop had been working in the industry when he first came up with the idea for the inlaid tables. Richard remembers, "I was fortunate enough to be invited aboard a 135 foot yacht for lunch. The lunch was served on a wonderful deck table with a compass rose inlay done in traditional veneers which the owner had commissioned just 13 months before. The table had been in service just 7 months, yet the inlay was failing due the fragileness of the veneers in the environment in which it was used...
A Jurassic Job for ArtCAM Insignia
Scott Fortune from Fox Chapel Area High School has used ArtCAM Insignia and his imagination to give an old idea a whole new lease of life. I can remember getting these dinosaur kits as presents as a kid, however none of them came in this size! Scott started off by purchasing a small scale model to design the dinosaur from. After an unsuccessful attempt to scan the individual pieces, he scanned a rough picture of the pieces...
Woodscape Designs
Joe Valasek, owner of Woodscape Designs, is a signmaker and sculptor with 25 years experience. Examples of his intricate work can be seen to the right. Until 4 years ago much of Joe's work involved a great deal of hand carving with chisels, routers and rotary tools. Joe's continuing frustration with the fact that traditional tools would only allow him to carve one piece at a time caused him to investigate the possibility of utilising some kind of CAD Software...
MacucoCAM goes kinetic with Delcam’s ArtCAM Insignia
Despite the challenges of living in an area of slow economic growth, Fernando Perez has begun his own small sign making and wooden ornaments business, MacucoCAM, in the Salta Province of Northern Argentina. To minimise the start-up costs for his company, Fernando began by studying various routers and using numerical control software under Linux to design and create his own CNC router...