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to me this is more like you learned to be a woodworker because you liked actually creating things with your hand tools, and now all day long is just using a CNC router is copy-pasting CNC patterns from cncoverflow and then glueing the machined wooden pieces together.

it's not woodworking anymore, it's glueing and google-fu to find the best patterns on cncoverflow, together with maybe some shim-building here and there and making your own custom stain




I just searched for cncoverflow based on your comment. I was disappointed to find it doesn't exist. It sounds cool. ;-)


hah surprised it doesn't honestly, you'd think there'd be a need for people to discuss feed rates, cnc bits, materials and so on, especially with quite a few techie woodworkers nowadays building their own CNC from kits


There are places like thingiverse.com and shapeways.com though, where people share & buy designs, mostly intended to be 3D-printed.


That's a great analogy. Its as if programming moved from creating to assembly. (The act not the language)


Speaking for my own professional experience, while there is a ton of glue and google-fu, the net results are frequently interesting and at least someone novel.

I guess it's a question of what is done with newly available, powerful tools and abstractions.




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