Board to be Wild

What is this project about?

For this project, we will be making our own custom cutting boards. On this board we will be able to cutomize the shape of our board. We will use a shotbot to mill a custom hole in our wood. We will also be able to ingrave a design of our choice and fill it up with resin.

These are the measurements for my bored without cutting it. My board was 12 inches by 9.25in.

This is the rough sketch of my design that I want on my board.

This is me using the drum sander on a different piece of wood because my wood partner already did those things for our wood.

This is me also using the planar.

This is my sanded wood and the measurements stayed the same.

This is my corel draw river design that im going to engrave in my wood. To get my file ready to engrave, I hade to upload this onto corel and trace it using a 2-point line. After that I made it hairline.

Workflow

Open a blank document in Aspire
Make the shape of the whole you want to cut in Aspire
Change the diameter
Go to tool path commands
Check job setup to make sure the settings are correct
Select 2D profile toolpath
Start depth is zero and change cut depth to be appropriate for your wood.
Select end mill
Change pass depth, spindle speed, and feed rate to desired amount
Change machine vector to either go on the outside, inside, or on your lines
Add tabs to tool path
Send to machine

Workflow

Open shop bot software
Move to origin
Use jog command in the z direction (No higher than 4, no lower than 3)
Make the x and y axis zero by typing C,3.
Put the plate under the bit
Press enter
Remove alligator clip
Type j,2 to move back to origin
Open file in aspire
Send to cut

This is my Aspire file for the hole i'm going to mill in my wood.

This is a video of the CNC machine milling the whole In my wood.

This is my wood after I used the CNC machine. After It was finished, the edges were very rough so I had to use sandpaper to sand down the rough edges.

Before I can use the laser, I had to cut the shape of my board. I drew the outline and Mrs. Morrow used the router to go along the outline.

This is how it turned out and I used sandpaper to sand down the edges.

This the Link to the deep engrave on my board.

This how it turned out after the deep engrave.

To fill my board, I used blue resin to resemble an actual lake. I then had to create a barier to stop the resin from leaking out of my board.

After the resin dried I has to use the hand sander to get off any unnecessary resin on the top.

Finally, the last step was to oil my board and let it dry.

Problems I encountered

One problem that I encountered was that when I deep engraved my design on to my wood, it wasn't able to cut deeo enough. So I tried to realign it but it came out a bit off. Another problem I encountered was that when i used nito tape to create the barrier around my wood, it leaked. So I used an old folder and hot glued it to the sides of my board and it worked pretty well.

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