[JOAT]

My precision tool of choice would be a chainsaw, but that's me. Who'll be first to make one?
Routing a Four Foot Tall Tiki Sculpture | Make:

And we'll be wanting pictures of the finished work. :grin: :laugh2: >

 

[JOAT]

But how long would it take you to get set up with a CNC router? A design that simple you could round off with a hand power plane, mark out the design, then use a handheld router and rout it out, and I would say a lot faster then your CNC. After all, the teeth and eyes are just painted.

Yeah, I'll admit CNC machines can be useful, but using one of them for a project like this, I would say was just a waste of time. The exception might be if he wanted practice. I made 2 or 3 or 4, don't recall now, with a chainsaw, then touched up a few place with a chisel if I recall right. Still got one in the shop, about 4' tall, still with bark on it. Very much fun. Have a couple of posts, about 10"X10", two electric chainsaws now, and as soon as I make some sawhorses, it'll be Tiki time - I'll cut the posts in half, they're 6' or 8' long.

 

[JOAT]

Well Theo,

If I ever have to make a 4' long 16" thick Tiki, I'll just have you come over with your chainsaw. But until then, I'll just keep carving my 3d plaques and signs with my CNC MACHINE!!!!! Betcha my models and lettering text are a little neater than using your chain saw.

Even us old dogs can learn a few new tricks, as long as there's not much memory work involved. Even Ollie and MT Stringer got one of them new fangled gizmos now. Bet your band saw and sander have foot pedals, too. All that exercise should do you good. lol

Ah, but a CNC just can't give you the satisfaction that chainsawing a Tiki can. Hehehe Yeah, I'll admit a CNC is way ahead for plaques and signs - but seeing as I don't do either of those I don't need a CNC. Nah, you guys can have all the fun you want with those new thingies, they just have no appeal to me. With my next Tiki, I think I'll just rough it out with a chainsaw, then if my son didn't walk off with my wood chisels, I'll finish it off with them, and homemade carving mallets. No memory will be harmed in the carving of a Tiki, just some new trick learning. And I don't have this Tiki anymore. It got ran over, on two different occasions, by one of my son's friends. Turned out it was rather infested with beetles and the second time killed it. Did last about 7 years tho, and definitely no problem finding my drive. But still got one in the shop.

 

[JOAT]

Theo this is a chain saw project and well done.

We all need to remember, a CNC machine is just another tool in our shop and will never replace all the tools in the shop, there are things that are better done with other tools.

True, just not a tool I want. I like to poke fun at you CNC guys, but nothing against you all. If you want a CNC, then have at it, if you can afford it. It's just something that I could never be satisfied with using. I started shop classes in the 4th grade. Yep, been awhile. All hand tools. First power tools in 9th grade shop - a bench sender. Lost some fingerprints on that. LOL That and a hand cranked coal forge. First real power tools in 10i grade shop, table saw, drill press, metal lathe, milling machine, the same or identical forge. And been at about that level ever since. I worked with computers for years, and computer engineers - you cannot believe just how stupid some people with a four year college degree in computer science can be. Such as:
Hey, my computer won't work - first, you have a terminal, not a computer - second, the power is off.
Oh, OK, when is it coming back on?
This report is wrong. I put my information in, and the computer didn't correct it. Only took me 15 minutes to get that little tidbit out of the guy.
And the list goes on.

And that is partly why I am not going to get a CNC. Mostly because I just don't find them fun to use. Let's face it, a chainsaw is loud and makes lots of sawdust, what's not to like? Hehehe

 

[JOAT]

Their second advantage is when you need multiple copies of a complicated part (that might be tediously made using other tools) cut over and over again, or quickly rescaled and cut again.

Depends. That is why I make masters, can clone the same piece over and over. Actually I know a fair amount about what a CNC machine can do. I've watched videos, I've seen them live. A Godsend for a lot of jobs, I enjoy watching some of them, depending on what they are doing. And I have absolutely no interest at all in having one, it would suck the joy out of woodworking for me to work with one. I am a Luddite and proud of it. LMAO >