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Equipment => Bats => Bat Making => Topic started by: n80krr on June 07, 2010, 02:09:56 PM
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Hi all I'm very new to this site and the whole bat making process, I use a 5 axis router at work so I could route pretty much any shape I wanted. I was wondering if there are any advantages to pod shaving to achieve the overall shape or would routing a bat shape be sufficient to then start to prepare the bat for it's first use. Many Thanks
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Could probably use the Router, GM use a similar CNC Router machine. I guess doing it by hand you can feel the bat at each stage, as each piece of willow has different properties.
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I use a CNC router at work, I'd only use it to get the rough shape, then finish with some sanding and polishing, then a long knocking in session.
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That would work, as Leo says thats what GM are using as a selling point
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I think at least 3 UK makers have CNC machines. They're very impressive to watch and to have 2 almost complete bats in 3 mins is amazing.
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cnc machine are more accurate and cost a bomb especially when you break them ;)
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they do require some skill, but routing wood is almost as easy as it gets. I also route polystyerene.
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Mine was glass and the break was not my fault thankfully the air sucker failed so glass moved and grinder went through the sucker and jerked the motor but all fun
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Well at the mo I'm playing with the baby ones(2m x 4m) then if I'm any good I'll be let loose on the big one (15m x 9m). We mainly route polystyerene though, so thats much more forgiving than glass.
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Cool well they are fun glass is not very forgiving but rewarding as I had to go through all the programming part as well as the machine part
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yeah, Fanuc is a joy to learn, as are G codes.
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Mine was mainly a cad cam but fun draw things on and play around on a weekend when doing a favour will always remember doing a mirror for a friend in the shape of a woman with all the features etched in was a fun Saturday morning but cnc's are mostly the same
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yeah we mainly use delcam, but I have seen some cadcam. Had to make the scorpions on clash of the titans.
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yeah we mainly use delcam, but I have seen some cadcam. Had to make the scorpions on clash of the titans.
I bet those Scorpions "Rock you like a Hurricane"
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Ha I like it
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humm, Love at First Sting
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I also made the mould used to form this, However I had nothing to do with the design.
(http://images18.fotki.com/v270/photos/1/1001861/4061404/Balustrade-vi.jpg)
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OH dear!!
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That's hilarious! Absolute mare! Design flaw or a bit of a joke?
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definate design flaw it's on a bridge in london
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Did you notice when you made them and just not tell them lol as I can remember sending a window with a fly inbetween a window to a customer once to see if they would notice
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Did you notice when you made them and just not tell them lol as I can remember sending a window with a fly inbetween a window to a customer once to see if they would notice
Did they notice?
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no as you can see it wasn't noticed until the sun was shining on it.
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Never heard anything back from it we liked to have some fun but I once got a laminate piece of glass through which had a bug in between the two pieces was horrible lol
What did they say when they noticed
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nothing, only thing the could do would be to rip it down. and as far as i know it's still on the bridge
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I bet the desighner was sat down and talked to ha I have had a few arguments with those people on the phone telling them the drawings don't work etc all fin alot of my stuff went in escallators as they have to have a special shape lol kitted out the bull ring
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that must have been fair bit of glass. biggest thing i've had a hand in creating was the ice cave in Harry Potter and the giant head in St Helens
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Not the outside the inside stuff plus your work sounds alot more enjoying than mine was but I had alot of fun doing lead pattens on the glass lol
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obviously i'm mkaing it sound better than it is, but sometimes when there is no routing, I have to make cellcore
(http://www.cordek.co.uk/images/central/products/groundmovement/foam2.jpg)