Folders/autos new adventure

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Stag & Steel

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I have made fixed blades for over 18 years, I tried autos a few years back, made 4 and quit, it made me crazy trying to get it all just right. Well I'm about to go at it again, only this time with a benchtop CNC machine. Any advice from folder/auto makers for me? It is a little scary with the cost of equipment.
Thanks and God Bless!
Jim
 
Hi Darren,
I have purchased a Taig CNC 2026-ER16 and will be using Autodesk Inventor 9 & 10 and Bobcad 16 coupled with Mach3 to drive it.
I am pretty excited. Here are the 4 autos I made about 10 years or so ago. Excuse the picture, it is a scanned in old 35mm.

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Jim
 
I ran mine on mach one also Jim.
I have special made servo systems on the drives and the motors so I really dont for the standard set up.
 
Let us know more about the machine. I ran CNC before I retired and thought it would be great to have one to make knives on.. The one benchtop I researched just didn't look big enough to make any kind of cut.

Dave
 
nice autos stag, the third one down really speaks to me, it is an uncomon blade style for a folder and the craftsmanship on all of the handles is toop-notch! i really look forward to seen more in the future!
 
Hi Jim,

Those autos look great. Also, thanks for posting that link, I've been wondering about a desktop cnc machine, this gives me a reference to start looking into them! Thanks!

:)

-Darren
 
Darren, no problem, I think of all I looked at, this it was the best for the money. I started learning Bobcad (cad/programming) yesterday and am anxious for it all to get here (about 3 weeks). By the way if you need a computer to run one with, I just bought a Dell for $249.00, sale good thru tomorrow ($353.00 with shipping and tax).
Jim
 
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