Rex Smith (Portland OR) was a Corporate Vice President of MSN® Operations at Microsoft until his retirement in 2002. Rex was also Chairman, COO of the first startup company to bring free email service over the world wide web. That company was Hotmail.com, co-founded by Rex’s son Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996 and […]
This project comes to us from Rex Smith out of Portland OR. Rex was a Corporate Vice President of MSN® Operations at Microsoft until his retirement in 2002 and served as COO of the startup Hotmail.com, co-founded by Rex’s son Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996. Read more about Rex Smith below and from […]
Read the complete case study here! Sheldon Dingwall and Dingwall Guitars (Saskatoon, SK Canada) is one of the pioneers in the development of today’s multi-scale fan fret electric bass guitar. Sheldon was a player from a very young age, first learning the piano at age 5, drums and then guitar at age 12! But Sheldon […]
Read the complete case study here! Sheldon Dingwall and Dingwall Guitars (Saskatoon, SK Canada) is one of the pioneers in the development of today’s multi-scale fan fret electric bass guitar. Sheldon was a player from a very young age, first learning the piano at age 5, drums and then guitar at age 12! But Sheldon […]
Sheldon Dingwall and Dingwall Guitars (Saskatoon, SK Canada) is one of the pioneers in the development of today’s multi-scale fan fret electric bass guitar. Sheldon was a player from a very young age, first learning the piano at age 5, drums and then guitar at age 12! But Sheldon didn’t stop there. He decided to build his own guitar in his uncle’s cabinet shop where he learned the critical woodworking skills from a master craftsman.
Our friends at PolyFab Corporation (Wilmington, MA) just shared this cool RhinoCAM project they recently completed for designer Alvin Winant (PlaceUniqueForms.com) and the Nantucket Historical Association.
We recently caught up with Max Allstadt, entrepreneur and independent CNC contractor out of Brooklyn, New York. Max is an avid Rhinoceros modeler and has been using RhinoCAM Professional with his ShopSaber CNC router since 2017. Prior to starting his own shop Max was a carpenter and an administrative assistant to Israeli-Canadian architect, urban designer, […]
Michael Blase has been in the photography business serving the theatrical advertising market from lower Manhattan since 1995. Today Blase Photography creates photographs of constructed realities for performers, directors, designers and event organizers. Here’s the catch. Michael does not rely on CGI. He builds complete sets and props for the models, actors or performers to […]
3 Axis Parallel Finishing is the most commonly used toolpath strategy in the MecSoft CAM Milling plugin. It can be used either as a pre-finishing operation or as a finishing operation. In this cut method, the cutter is restricted to follow the contours of the 3-dimensional surface or solid in the Z axis while being […]
The fretboard of an Appalachian dulcimer crafted by McCafferty Dulcimers can include from up to 25 different standard patterns and growing, and also have the option for custom patterns as requested. In the following sections we discuss how Terry approaches the machining of the mother-of-pearl inlays as well as the inlay pocketing. Two of Terry’s […]
