CNC Ornamental Lathe - Big Thank You!

This is a chunk of Maple that I formed manually then used LinuxCNC and home-built mechanics to do the engraving. Most of the code was in Python/NGCGUI feeding AXIS.






The lathe is setup as an XZC lathe with rotation around the Z axis.
Dewey Garrett gave me the idea of "probing" along the surface and using those data-points in the code to provide a consistent depth of engraving. Works great!

I used a 1/8" ball-mill for the octagon engraving and a 1/2" round-nose router bit for the fluting.

Many thanks to the people of this forum for their advise, counsel and ideas....
-Tom

excellent Tom ,

could you perhaps post your configuration fles for other willing to give this a try ,
and perhaps an example .

i feel this should perhaps be placed in the wiki Tom

That is some mighty fine work!

Thanks , For posting that picture . Mighty fine work . This is something I would like to do after I get this first project done . please post more photos and talk about your setups .

Regards
Terry

Here is a picture of the machine configured to engrave in the XC plane - the router can be adjusted to cut either from the end or from the side or anywhere in between.





Also, as requested, are the configuration files for my "mill" - I call it a mill because it does control 3 axis - although I can drop the C-Axis and run it as a 2-axis lathe with the lathe running under its own power.

Hi, CTS . Thanks for sharing . If you or anyone else want to see some similar work . I call his stuff eye candy. His name is Bill Ooms www.billooms.com
he has some cool software too . Check him out .

Terry