[carpholeo]

Originally Posted by redg8r

Heres a peek at one we've been working on.
This prototype was made simply for proof of concept, it has many flaws & it's quite dangerous, please dont attempt.
Once we're happy with the design, we'll make it available here.
Our prerequisites were that the materials be readily available, affordable & be able to build & use in a small shop.
Feedback welcomed.

Ca'mon hurry up already,I have to have one of these!

[redg8r]

A Mac,
Let us know how it turns out for you.
We played around with the commercial version at Nathan's during the Clinton Meet.
Unless your intention is to carve 2 halves & join them together, you're gonna need a way to index the rotation of the master & blank.

I've followed the copycarver site for many years now, it's a great setup for larger baits, gunstocks, decoys etc, but not sure if they have addressed the 360 indexing issue or not.

Originally Posted by carpholeo

Ca'mon hurry up already,I have to have one of these!

[A-Mac]

I just got my router bits in the mail. However, I'm quite busy trying to get caught up on some orders with my smaller cranks and haven't got around to messing with the copy carver much. It is together and it looks like it will work. As far as 360 there is a method in the plans but Ed Waliki (designer) says its much faster to do one side at a time and focus on fine detail with a dremel. I'm not quite sure how the 360 thing would work according to the plans. However, the entire machine didn't really make sense until I was actually building it. Design is quite genius.

[Fernet]

Simply brilliant!

Hope you'll be happy soon, cause I want!