We have begun the new semester here and the first order of business has been to cut out some templates on the Shopbot CNC for a couple of very popular projects. In the past students have made a lot of Adirondack chairs but this semester we purchased some dxf files from Phil at The Barley Harvest to be used on the new machine. Our first job turned out very nice (it's a new design for us, a Beach Chair in the Adirondack style). The trick now is to set up the files so that students can machine individual parts from solid stock instead of a sheet of ply.
This is the finished product for the Beach Chair. All of the parts machined very well and if you look closely you can see the tabs that were inserted in order to keep the parts from shifting during machining. We can't wait to get one of these new chairs assembled and give it a nice long sit-down.
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