I’m back from my six-month self-imposed exile (more on that another time).
While I continued teaching during my time away (69 students in that stretch, bringing my lifetime total to 195) I’ve been feeling the itch to break out of the structured curriculum and dive into another wild project.
Consider this your official invitation to come along for the ride.
But the stars of the haul are two large cookies (Elm? Ash?) that will be my immediate focus. They’re roughly 32” in diameter and end-grain, making them a perfect candidate for demonstrating the CNC’s flattening capabilities.
Instead of doing it solo on my home machine, I’ve booked time at the end of my CNC class this Wednesday night at 8pm. I’ll be doing a live demo on how to flatten large, end-grain cookies using the CNC: what to do, what to avoid, and a few lessons learned the hard way.
Everyone is welcome, even if you haven’t taken the CNC class (yet).
While he was demo’ing flattening I was working on an inlay cutting board. I made the silly mistake of programming the v cut with a 30° bit and actually cutting with a 60° bit. Luckily I hadnt removed the piece before I caught the error, and was able to re cut using the correct setting and bit.
After both pieces were cutout, a dry fit found a little play in the 2 pieces. I decided to sand the female piece, the maple piece, to try amd adjust the fit I wasnt super confident the inlay was going to look great after glue up, but proceeded anyways. I’m happy to report, it came out great!
Sorry Steve, I didnt get any pics of the flattening, but thanks for hosting.
Here is the finished cookie. I still have one more to flatten at some point.
I did just see Stefan booked time on skedda Saturday morning to flatten his cookies. He’s a good dude and I’m sure would be willing to pay it forward just like I have if you want to go see his approach.
