First Handibot project

I realized last night that my Craftsman Workmate would easily hold the board in the proper orientation and then the Handibot can sit right on it. Should work great. The toolpath will simply be a up and down square step profile in Vcarve Pro. Should actually be pretty easy to do. I will give it a shot this weekend and post some pics.

A couple of people have done those sort of Dovetails on a Gantry-style ShopBot...here's an article from the ShopBot blog that might help:

[www.shopbotblog.com]

When we first started thinking about Handibots I did a preliminary model of one possibility for an end-cutting jig, to attach to the end of a table and do this kind of stuff. I'll upload a model to the Sketchup 3dWarehouse in a little bit

The model is up in the shiny new Sketchup 3dwarehouse!

[3dwarehouse.sketchup.com]

Okay I stand corrected, I was thinking of with the stock flat. Can't think of much in wood that it won't do with the right jig!

Hey Mark,

The interesting thing about all this is that there will be lots of folks coming up with tons of creative ways to do all kinds of jobs. The secret is to keep sharing, no matter how half-baked the ideas!!!

Here's a video that shows cutting dovetails out of flat sheets. The process is pretty clunky at the moment but the Vectric guys (the creators of VCarvePro) are working on automating the process of creating those flat-cut dovetails in a "gadget", which will make it pretty easy.

[www.youtube.com]

Bill