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Company in upstate NY using old automotive assembly robots for CNC furniture making.
http://www.timbrny.com/#!totoro-timbr/cqwx
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Company in upstate NY using old automotive assembly robots for CNC furniture making.
http://www.timbrny.com/#!totoro-timbr/cqwx
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"Old" robots......
That makes me feel ancient...
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
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I wonder how hard a robot like that is to program compared to a 3 axis cnc.
Did you see the price on the finished stools? $2600 for a small one.
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And your point is?Originally Posted by Rich Engelhardt
That makes me feel ancient...
When I started woodworking, I didn't know squat. I have progressed in 30 years - now I do know squat.
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Cnc carved stumps. For $3000. Huh.
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Now that's funny.
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Reminds me of a Warner Brothers Cartoon, making trees into toothpicks.
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thats alot of money for a chunk of wood
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Pretty neat looking when its finished, but holy crap that's an obscene amount of money! I guess they're charging a "robot premium"
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"Theres a sucker born every minute"
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I think I have a few of those cheese boards somewhere in my scrap pile.
John
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As I have to remind people on craigslist when they point to other overpriced items--sure, that's what they are *asking*.
Then again, I'm sure there are NYC designers with clients that don't really care how much it costs.
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I was curious where in upstate NY they were. According to their area code it is Manhattan. I guess I am really upstate.
I think the $3,000 is to cover getting it to dry without splitting.
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Hmm. I think I can turn those out for $2500 per...
Brian
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger or more complicated...it takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - E.F. Schumacher
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It looks similar to some of the grinding robots we used in the foundry. Most were 6-axis, one was 7-axis. The seventh axis was for the robot to translate on the floor. It was pretty cool to watch one of ABB's biggest robots move along the floor gringing a casting and throwing sparks 30 feet up into the rafters!
Our's all had safety cages so you couldn't get too close without disabling the robot. We had software for teaching it the program offline, then you only had to fine tune it, minimizing downtime.
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