Home-Based CNC Woodworking Business Full Production Run

today we're going to make 87 bourbon smokers all in one car we're going to sell these for $25 a piece that's over $2,000 in less than a half a [Music] day [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Music] all right so now that the bowl and tray bit has given us the Contours that we want and kind of roughed out the material we're going to swap it out for this 1/4in down cut bit that's going to do all of our profile cuts for [Music] us [Music] [Applause] [Music] that was a close call the air hose for the air assist for the laser got caught on the back of the CNC that could have been bad so the Quin down cut bit just finished up its tool path went well honestly everything lined up great I'm happy with that now it's time to to do some customization and we're going to do that by switching to my [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] laser so the power of CNC and uh production in my two-car garage blows my mind every time I see uh this or do something like this it just the capability blows my [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] mind so these are the filters that I use and they will be linked in the description below uh they're just off Amazon here's one of those uh prototypes that I was talking about that I had made and I just got this to show you how this how this fits in here so this is just designed to be friction fit it just sets in there just like that then what you do is you just take a pinch you don't need a lot just see how much I've got there a pinch drop it into the bourbon smoker maybe a little bit more and this doesn't have to be just bourbon this can be a cocktail smoker whiskey anything you can imagine you can smoke so the next key part is the torch that you use I've got these little but butane torches um off from Amazon that work well uh I'll link them in the description as well but the key is is that whatever you're using is blowing downward or blowing in a lighter won't work because the smoke will just raise up so you need that that blowing uh thing so let's see if we can get it to work here watch the bottom the smoke will come out the bottom all right so watch right here the smoke will come out the bottom this will be over a glass but just burns it and so yeah but the key is is that you have a torch that blows through through the bottom what I want to do is I want to slow it down and go over some of the details all right so we're literally going to start step one I Mill down the wood so in order to do this the this isn't one big glue up these are all this is 11 individual panels that are 4 in and 5/16 wide and that is based on the space I need for the width of my bourbon smoker so the width of the bourbon smoker is 3 in and but then I need space for my quarter inch bit to cut on both sides so uh that puts at 4 in so I had 5/16 and that is split on both sides of clearance uh on need board so in order to do this you have to Mill all the boards to the exact same size then what I do is I come into my software I'm using vectric here and um I create rectangles that are exactly the same size as my stock material then what I do is I align my design so my bourbon my bourbon smoker um design um to those rectangles so think about it as like you're aligning your um your vectors um to the boards and then what I do is once I get everything laid out in there I know everything's lined up and I come over and I lay the boards exactly how I got them laid in vectric and I know everything is going to be perfectly lined up so that's what I did today and it works flawlessly every single time uh everything it hit its marks and everything was aligned uh perfectly so you may be wondering why I didn't carve a uh smoker out of this bottom left hand corner and the reason is is because that's where I zeroed two and I didn't want to carve a smoker there and lose the opportunity to reset my XY z0 if something had went wrong uh this was kind of my safety now I could go back and uh carve a smoker out of it uh last and that's something that I thought of after the fact but basically this was my safety area where I knew it wasn't going to move it wasn't going to change and I could always go back and reset my zero so you saw the first pocket um it's kind of my main pocket I used a bowl and tray bit a 3/4 inch bow and tray bit with a half inch shank on the spindle on the Avid CNC can take half inch shank bits and so I was able to run that at 250 in per minute which is a lot for a 3/4 in bit so that's how much material I was running um cutting on the first pass and then I was doing I'll have to look exactly um I'll put it down here but the step over um was something like uh 20% and so that's how far the bits moving over each time so that is a merge tool path as you can see here on the screen uh two pockets so that was the big pocket the small pocket the big pocket went to a depth of uh 5/8 so that's another thing to mention the White Oak sock that I started with was milled to 78 which is 8875 so I went down a quarter of an inch which gives me a 5/8 thickness uh overall and I do that because I want this chimney here and I want I use a bull and tray bit because I want that Contour on the bottom of the chimney and on the inside so those are the two pockets the the middle pocket goes um a little bit deeper it goes uh 38 I believe and U so that's the first merge tool path all right so before I forget merge tool paths you'll see that these are grouped into two uh merged tool paths and that is um for the uh similar bits it's the same bit but two different tool paths and what that does is rather than going and doing the first main tool um tool path first on every single one and traveling back to do the second one it does the main tool path and then it comes over cuz it's using the same exact tool comes over and does this one so it's half the amount of traveling because it's basically you'd be doing you're doing one lap versus two two laps around all the boards so next the second merge tool path is that's when we did the tool change we switched to the quarter inch down bit down cut bit and uh there's three tool paths in there uh two pockets which are one for the filter and then one to cut all the way through um for the smoke to come out the bottom and then the profile uh cut around the outside I'm holding these in place with two tabs on the corners where I have the strategically placed um on the bulk of the material I didn't do it right on the sides because I didn't know how close I would be uh to the edge of the material and if I didn't have material there then it would just get cut off so I'll cut all the tabs with a multi-tool yeah it's going to take a while but I built this whole setup to make sure nothing moved on me and because if anything moved it would throw the whole thing off so I want to make sure nothing moved at all uh I didn't use any double-sided tape it's all physical um tabs and screws to hold everything in place so feeds and speeds for the quarter-inch bit this is where I could have improved um I was really happy with the bow and tray bit but the tool path for the quarter inch down cut bit um the negative is that I was recutting a lot of material so a downcut bit is ejecting all those chips downwards and what dolls bits very quickly is recutting material you've already recut in order to film the first couple of the process without my dust shoe on I had dust collection on um but I didn't have the dust shoe on so I could film it for you then I realized I would have had to restart over if I wanted to put the dust shoe back on and I didn't want to do that so I just ran it without the dust shoe so as you saw a lot of dust built up on the surface and I was just recutting that material um every time so I did have to slow my initial feed rate of 200 in per minute on that bit um down to I slowed it down a third so it's 66% so I was still going 120 130 Ines per minute uh on that tool path so what would I improve one I would improve the uh dust collection to try to get more of those chips out of there and then I would have been able to run um faster that was just an observation on my part as it was going I'm like uh there's a it's recutting a lot of chips that's a lot of load if I don't slow that down it's going to end up um heating up really especially cutting all these it's going to heat up really fast and then that leads to bits breaking so that was kind of an adjustment on the Fly the last thing as far as tool paths go is the laser tool path yes that's right laser tool path if you noticed obviously you noticed I did it all without removing anything I cut I I carved everything with the CNC router I switched over to the laser and it's as simple as with it with my Avid um setup is as easy as switching from the bow and tray bit to the down cut bit so the laser is pretty self-explanatory uh again I'm in Kentucky and uh we're going to be selling these at Kentucky craft fairs uh we've got four craft faires coming up that this is going to be stock for and so uh that is why I put Kentucky on all of them I think it's going to to be be really really good so next steps like I said is to use a multi-tool cut all the tabs out get all these out um take them to the oscillating belt sander clean up the tabs clean up the edges a little bit and then um I'm going to you I'm going to sand them uh a little bit probably with one of those mop Sanders um just to take the the rough edges off them and then um they're going to be ready to go uh I haven't decided I might put a mineral oil finish on them but to be honest with you I don't think I'm going to I think I might just leave them the way they are I don't know that's yet to be seen if you have any input on that let me know down in the comments below um what you thought so one other thought about cleaning them up is in the tool paths in the profile tool paths the final cutout I have it set up to do this do separate last pass and this is set at 02 in um so hunds of an inch so if the first pass on your tool path you only go down halfway right so say I my depth of cut was uh3 uh you're going to have a tool Mark there so what I do is it goes down3 and then it goes down another. 3 and then it moves over uh horizontally 02 in and so it cleans up all of those tooling marks on the edges so that really helps too so honestly if I wasn't using tabs these would they would be very clean um on the edges so for making 87 of in anything uh the amount of issues I had today were very little and until Andrew my cameraman showed up um he's bad luck but uh so uh as the CNC was going I was I was off to the side and I was looking um one of the air hoses for the laser got stuck on the back side of the CNC and the CN and the CNC was all the way forward and so luckily I have a lot of slack kind of see over here on the side luckily I had a lot of slack because otherwise it would have snapped that off and that would have that would have put us back a little a little while so I would had to reconnect it not a big deal um but other than that and other than the dust collection and the down cut bit recutting chips uh it was a pretty Flawless day which that is a knock on a lot of oak wood now something I didn't talk about is I did run some test uh like I said in that other video that was working out all the Kinks switching from routing to lasering and learning that whole process um so I did make uh I ran like five tests on single bourbon um smokers just to try to dial it in and dial the design so it wasn't like I just did the file jumped out here and hit go there was a lot of previous work done but it all worked out because today was a Flawless day of scene scene and it makes me lot happy lot happy makes me a lot happy so we're going to sell these at our four upcoming markets so we're going to sell these for a minimum of $25 a piece so 25 * 87 uh equals 2,175 now we're going to subtract the raw material uh cost which is uh $150 for the White Oak so we have $2,025 now let's figure out the time that we have into this so from Milling the wood until now uh we have under three and a half hours it's like three hours 15 minutes let's just do 3 and 1/2 hours so divide that by 3.5 and that is $578 57 per hour so that is not a bad half days worth of work so one thing I wanted to do with this video was show the True Performance perance of my Avid CNC a lot of that is me is I'm the limiting factor this machine is capable of a lot more and I think I hope a lot of you can relate to that so if you have a smaller machine uh like I I did and I still do I have my shapeoko downstairs obviously you can't do it at these speeds and maybe not at this scale but you can 100% I've proven that concept over and over again uh I will have a video up here over here somewhere um about how I used to do batches on my shapco CNC and it took longer the batches were smaller I couldn't make as much money as fast um but that is why there is a difference between um a machine like this and a machine like that so hopefully this draws kind of a clear picture I don't want this to make it feel like oh you oh you can't do this or anything like that like you totally can do this it just might be smaller but I think it's um a disservice if you don't understand what a machine like this is capable of as well if you want to learn more about these bourbon smokers be sure to check out Hamilton Dil Beck's video right up here I'll link it up above here uh if he does a deep dive on everything you would ever want to know about bourbon smokers check that video out so speaking of those videos that I did like two and three years ago where I was batching on my smaller CNC right here click right there and you can see the difference how far I've come in 2 to three years and I think it would be very eye openening click right there and I will see you in that video thanks for [Music] watching

Channel: Andy Bird Builds

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Length: 17min 51sec (1071 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 26 2023