Feels like it needs a more centered leg, but I think that was just the angle the video was taken. Really cool out it turned out. You could have left that little burr in the middle after doing both sides to mimc how they sometimes look after coming out of the compression molds.
I didn't read ALL the comments, so maybe someone already suggested this . . . Instead of coasters that go in the holes, how about making some custom mugs that look like the minifig mugs that would fit into the holes. I just looked and you can actually buy upscaled mugs but who knows if they'd be the right scale . . . Maybe you could CNC out of some type of plastic instead of wood, so they would be 100% functional without fear of eventual cracking etc.
Very nice piece and video. A suggestion for CNC work: Always assume that the computer will lose the zero! I always put a zero point in the waste portion of the piece. In this case, I would have drilled through the piece so that the zero point would match (need to account for rotation).
Why not incorpoate Lego Axles as legs some how? Single in the middle, or a Tight Two or Four or for through their proper placement. . It would need a floor base though.
This table is really well designed. Every piece is clearly labeled, th-cam.com/users/postUgkxn94T8Mu1iMnsLCMNOI9srXSsLkI4JXKW and the instructions are perfectly displayed, so it's really hard to mess up the assembly. The hardware is likewise clearly labeled. If I had a power driver, assembly time would have been cut in half, but I didn't mind the light workout. My only qualm is that is that the lift top is wobbly in between its open and closed positions, but that's really a minor complaint. For the price, you really can't get much better than this, hence the five-star review. I use it primarily for my wireless mouse and keyboard so that I can use my PC from the couch. Storage is nice. I'm totally happy with this purchase.
While making a single oversized wooden Lego gear is not trivial, I would think that the real challenge is making enough regular Lego pieces so that you can build the whole car.
I think for the legs a great idea would be to put one of the cross axles in the middle and have a round foot (maybe another gear?) at the bottom... Also glass on top for usability while still seeing the end project.
Frank, you're a genius and so much fun to watch! Using lego connections to hold down your lego gear on the cnc? That's next level! Thank you for all the great videos!
I cant help but see the four circular holes as cupholders.... you need to make a matching set of scaled up lego coffee cups that will plug into those holes. ;-) your channel is inspiring Frank. thanks for continuing to blow my mind!
I thought I recognized that bridge. We escaped Portland 43 years ago and moved to LincolnCity. I've been running my cabinet and furniture shop since 1983. I really enjoy your videos and sense of humor. Oh your work is not bad too.🤣🤓
As a big Lego fan, this is wonderful but I feel like 1) it needs another leg, and 2) what about flattening the top and filling with coloured epoxy to make a useable table? Just a thought :) Thanks for the content!
Why another leg? 3 legs eliminate any potential rocking caused by an uneven floor. And based on the sequence with the cat there aren't any issues with tipping.
You mentioned kinetic Funnily enough i was thinking about a glass top table with gears and cranks etc, where some of the gears are accessible from the edge so you can spin them
I made a set of LEGO technics parts to make a competition grade FLL robot. She was allowed to be the FLL family for stand in robots. But everything was scale.
You're a trooper Frank! I think I would've started over. I hope you didn't destroy your new end mill, those things aren't cheap! Turned out great in the end!
I love the coaster idea. And those you could make fit perfectly ID and OD. And they would all nest easily so you wouldn't need one of those coater holders. Edited Sp.
What a fun stop motion animation for the bacon! Edit: Oh! I had the idea that the legs could be the Lego technic pieces (the peg connectors), that’d be neat Edit2: ah so “normal” legs it is hm but I do think the longer technic connectors (or axels) would be a better ascetic fit
Shop envy so hard every time I watch these. Also, I love seeing techniques and the though process. It's like a lesson but you don't realize you're in class!
My wife watches these with me sometimes and asks my why I don't do stuff like that. I'm like okay you ready for me to spend a years salary on the tools I need to do these things????
@@steveo1413 Gotta start somewhere though! If you find a project you are excited about that has a more limited set of tools needed. But I get it, there's a base line of tools needed for fine woodworking and I don't have many of them. I try and do even art projects that I can make due with the construction tools I have. You'd also be surprised how easy it is to get good prices on used equipment! Start small and eventually you'll be doing stop motion for 10 hours haha
Frank... I've followed you since I started out, way back when you used a lot of stock motion (the good-old-days) and there wasn't the CNC, I'm no CNC snob but hand on heart I watched your channel for you then, what you did, your sense of humour when you didn't have the CNC... its not so great since its got VERY niche with mostly CNC stuff IMO Frank.
Nicely done! I know what you mean about losing zero as I have done that within the last week on a double sided machining project. I was using some of the fixture offset features and failed to write down the coordinates. I then went on to another CNC project forgetting to change to a different fixture and inadvertently overwrote my zero settings. I must say you did a much better job recovering than I did. Hope you didn't ruin bits and blades hitting all that metal. Steve
I'm sure you've thought of this before but a nice circular piece of glass would probably be the easiest solution for keeping the design and making the table more usable
I was thinking that too! It would also make it easier to make some kind of kinetic gear sculpture underneath without moving around the drinks and things on top
Video editing, and quality and woodworking are fantastic. After having a rough go of things Saturday I woke a little philosophical and I saw a metaphor for living in this video that bumps in the road (nails) don't have to be sad, be happy, and use my brain not my heart to overcome challenges.
Really beautiful work, Frank! Amazing looking coffee table! 😃 One idea about the top would be to put a glass over it. You know? Perhaps making little Lego pieces to put in the between, so the glass doesn't touch the gear. 😉 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Hi Frank and greetings from an Australian maker. This one outstanding project and design. Your patience and attention to detail is amazing and I love how you edit and present your videos. Regards and thanks James
You know, I would actually make this into an actual LEGO product and also add in some places in which LEGO could be stored, like little plastic containers inside of the holes where the vast majority of the smaller pieces could be stored, and having those little slits that are in the middle turned into places to store most kinds of Baseplates. (I just wished that some of the larger LEGO Elements were easier to store, including those Classic Space/Futuron I Crater Baseplates, though.)
Man that 2.5D CNC layer method sounds like a lot of trouble....I can't believe you didn't just model the whole gear in fusion360, and CAM it all in one shot ...🤔...seems like a lot of extra work for a pretty basic modeling job....
Oops I got ahead of my comment..you do have a metaldetector! Great work! (note: commend AFTER watching Frank's video)..I guess you could say "you nailed it with that Lego coffee table top!"
I lusually love Frank's work. But this feels like it has just too many -fixes-. With tthe bacon bowtie inlays and the blocks and the multi colored wood. I know it's not Franks fault, but I woul've given up on that wood piece.
make a glass top ? - custom piece from clear epoxy with the 8 nobules facing down to afix to top like a 'sectioned wheel' with the 'glass' inserts making 4+centre windows showing the gear below ending with a flat topped coffee table ? - great ingenuity making these pieces, much respect.
Re losing your 0,0 position on a job on the CNC machine; (painful) experience has taught me to home the machine before I start a job, reset the coordinates, then when I find the point on the table surface that I want to use as the origin for the job I write down the current coordinates before I set them to 0,0. Assuming your machine's homing operation is pretty repeatable, it means you can get back to your job's 0,0 position in the event of a failure. It's saved a job more than once for me.
Great result and awesome documentation of the process to get there. If you ever want to redo the legs, the little lightsaber hilts would be a piece that would work in Lego scale :) part no 64567, gives sort of a more technical look
It is always fun to see the ideas and creative way of making the things you first had a idea about. I been following you for many years, and when i see you have made a new video, i know i will have a great time watching what you have been making this time. I hope you have had a great summer, with a lot of fun with family and friends. We have had a summer of rain, but still had some nice moments, Take care, and keep up the amazing work, from Jan in Norway
Super cool video love seeing you're creations. I've done a bit of metal detection and I that hobby we use a pinpointer. A small metal detector. I think it could help you greatly in you're making.
Did you consider just cutting one side, leaving the live edge and filling it with epoxy resin? Then you could have a Lego gear table t hats flat on the top and more "usable."
I must say that i realy love this project a lot! Ha ha! I think it would be easy to make holders for coffecups or breadplats to the holes in the table, perhaps flat pieces that looks like real LEGO?
I really like this, Frank. It will be a great conversation piece. What I think would be neat, if possible, is to make actual cups that the very bottom will fit into the gear holes, like the little nubs on the tops of the Lego blocks, in addition to coasters.
A thick glass top cut to the inner diameter of the the outer tooth ring plus maybe a sixteenth of overhang over that outer tooth ring would look and work great. You'd have just enough overhang so something wouldn't fall of the edge of the glass into the gear's middle and still have most of the outer tooth ring exposed for the look and feel. Lots of LEGO sets use some sort of decorative disc on top of gears like that.
Frank, great video as always. If there is one video I would like to see from you is doing the computer work. You just do not turn on the router and it "knows" what to do . Ralph
For the top maybe you can make a negative pattern on a clear plexiglass that fits to the lego. and I'm worried that the snug legs break the rings, cause they are not thick enough.
I was hoping the circles in the gear were the right diameter for a taller travel coffee mug to fit into. Thank you for these videos Frank, they always inspire me to keep at whatever project is in front of me.
Seriously, this channel deserves an Emmy Award for cinematography and effects.
The stop motion gets me every time 😄
As ever, an enjoyable journey...
Feels like it needs a more centered leg, but I think that was just the angle the video was taken. Really cool out it turned out. You could have left that little burr in the middle after doing both sides to mimc how they sometimes look after coming out of the compression molds.
Making the same gear table out of the random patterned wood? It would look like the gear was made out of legos!
I didn't read ALL the comments, so maybe someone already suggested this . . .
Instead of coasters that go in the holes, how about making some custom mugs that look like the minifig mugs that would fit into the holes.
I just looked and you can actually buy upscaled mugs but who knows if they'd be the right scale . . .
Maybe you could CNC out of some type of plastic instead of wood, so they would be 100% functional without fear of eventual cracking etc.
Very nice piece and video.
A suggestion for CNC work: Always assume that the computer will lose the zero! I always put a zero point in the waste portion of the piece. In this case, I would have drilled through the piece so that the zero point would match (need to account for rotation).
Why not incorpoate Lego Axles as legs some how? Single in the middle, or a Tight Two or Four or for through their proper placement. . It would need a floor base though.
this video is so metal :D
This table is really well designed. Every piece is clearly labeled, th-cam.com/users/postUgkxn94T8Mu1iMnsLCMNOI9srXSsLkI4JXKW and the instructions are perfectly displayed, so it's really hard to mess up the assembly. The hardware is likewise clearly labeled. If I had a power driver, assembly time would have been cut in half, but I didn't mind the light workout. My only qualm is that is that the lift top is wobbly in between its open and closed positions, but that's really a minor complaint. For the price, you really can't get much better than this, hence the five-star review. I use it primarily for my wireless mouse and keyboard so that I can use my PC from the couch. Storage is nice. I'm totally happy with this purchase.
Great work and always admire your patience! I'd put a round piece of glass on top to make the surface more usable.
Hi Tom
@Colm Mc Carthy Those are clearly your words.
I sent you that Fairchild tool a couple years ago. It was a flea market find of mine. I’m glad you are getting good use of it.
What's the time stamp?
@@djmips He's referring to 6:48 when he started using it.
While making a single oversized wooden Lego gear is not trivial, I would think that the real challenge is making enough regular Lego pieces so that you can build the whole car.
I think for the legs a great idea would be to put one of the cross axles in the middle and have a round foot (maybe another gear?) at the bottom... Also glass on top for usability while still seeing the end project.
The way you use the cnc is so outside the box and different than anything else I’ve ever seen. Always a joy to watch your videos
same here and people don't seem to know what to do with a cnc they have
That would make a cool Lazy Susan idea for a big round dining table. You could have little Lego gears and handles that turn the whole thing.
That's a fun table idea!
Awesome little coffee table :) It look so cool! Now all we need is another (bigger) lego gear table to mesh with this one haha
That's cool, it's even got some flash from the injection molding process.
Frank, you're a genius and so much fun to watch! Using lego connections to hold down your lego gear on the cnc? That's next level! Thank you for all the great videos!
I cant help but see the four circular holes as cupholders.... you need to make a matching set of scaled up lego coffee cups that will plug into those holes. ;-) your channel is inspiring Frank. thanks for continuing to blow my mind!
A simple circular glass top would allow it to be functional without losing the aesthetics. Great job as always!
Frank, did you by chance check the year the nails became part of the tree?
Fantastic project and, as always, great videography.
For the legs, my mind instantly went to multiple sets of minifig hips/legs! Fantastic build as always, turned out great!
I like that.
"I got a brand new 1/2" bit!" (Strikes metal in tree stump) Yikes!
What an ordeal. Way to go for sticking to it and finding ways to make it work!
It’s good that you got a through CAT scan when finished.
I thought I recognized that bridge. We escaped Portland 43 years ago and moved to LincolnCity. I've been running my cabinet and furniture shop since 1983.
I really enjoy your videos and sense of humor. Oh your work is not bad too.🤣🤓
As a big Lego fan, this is wonderful but I feel like 1) it needs another leg, and 2) what about flattening the top and filling with coloured epoxy to make a useable table? Just a thought :) Thanks for the content!
Would also be good with a glass top with rubber pads to stop sliding
He make later a cop that fit in the hole 😉
Why another leg? 3 legs eliminate any potential rocking caused by an uneven floor. And based on the sequence with the cat there aren't any issues with tipping.
@@kharris28 because 3 legs is just weird, it's asymmetrical on something that's basically built on symmetry
@@doggfite couldn't have put it better myself :)
You mentioned kinetic
Funnily enough i was thinking about a glass top table with gears and cranks etc, where some of the gears are accessible from the edge so you can spin them
I made a set of LEGO technics parts to make a competition grade FLL robot. She was allowed to be the FLL family for stand in robots. But everything was scale.
You're a trooper Frank! I think I would've started over. I hope you didn't destroy your new end mill, those things aren't cheap! Turned out great in the end!
Nice work Frank! Plenty of “maybe I should give up” moments. Glad you pushed through.
I love the coaster idea. And those you could make fit perfectly ID and OD. And they would all nest easily so you wouldn't need one of those coater holders. Edited Sp.
You could very easily make legs from lego pieces if you used lego piece #61184, #32556 or #65249 for example 😁
Coasters - snack bowls - vases - Lego sorters! The possibilities are endless! You could make all sorts of things to put in those holes. :)
What a fun stop motion animation for the bacon!
Edit: Oh! I had the idea that the legs could be the Lego technic pieces (the peg connectors), that’d be neat
Edit2: ah so “normal” legs it is hm but I do think the longer technic connectors (or axels) would be a better ascetic fit
Great job proud of you son
Shop envy so hard every time I watch these. Also, I love seeing techniques and the though process. It's like a lesson but you don't realize you're in class!
My wife watches these with me sometimes and asks my why I don't do stuff like that. I'm like okay you ready for me to spend a years salary on the tools I need to do these things????
@@steveo1413 Gotta start somewhere though! If you find a project you are excited about that has a more limited set of tools needed. But I get it, there's a base line of tools needed for fine woodworking and I don't have many of them. I try and do even art projects that I can make due with the construction tools I have. You'd also be surprised how easy it is to get good prices on used equipment! Start small and eventually you'll be doing stop motion for 10 hours haha
@@steveseeger yeah just start collecting, it becomes an addiction.
Frank... I've followed you since I started out, way back when you used a lot of stock motion (the good-old-days) and there wasn't the CNC, I'm no CNC snob but hand on heart I watched your channel for you then, what you did, your sense of humour when you didn't have the CNC... its not so great since its got VERY niche with mostly CNC stuff IMO Frank.
I love your talent in creating works of art and always impressed with your problem solving. Nice work once again Frank.. Bill from Colorado
That alignment Lego idea is one of your more brilliant ones and that is saying something
That pesky piece of metal. Wow. That really must have been frustrating. Impressed with your persistence and creative problem solving.
Nicely done! I know what you mean about losing zero as I have done that within the last week on a double sided machining project. I was using some of the fixture offset features and failed to write down the coordinates. I then went on to another CNC project forgetting to change to a different fixture and inadvertently overwrote my zero settings. I must say you did a much better job recovering than I did. Hope you didn't ruin bits and blades hitting all that metal. Steve
The coaster inserts could be those little round 1X1 lego dots. Usually see them used to represent coins or lamp pieces.
it will be funnier if your legs was lego studs that clip into main gear
I'm sure you've thought of this before but a nice circular piece of glass would probably be the easiest solution for keeping the design and making the table more usable
I was thinking that too! It would also make it easier to make some kind of kinetic gear sculpture underneath without moving around the drinks and things on top
You could also put a piece of glass on top to make it more usable.
Did foreman Waffle approved your work ?
Video editing, and quality and woodworking are fantastic. After having a rough go of things Saturday I woke a little philosophical and I saw a metaphor for living in this video that bumps in the road (nails) don't have to be sad, be happy, and use my brain not my heart to overcome challenges.
Splayed legs would make it more stable.
Really beautiful work, Frank! Amazing looking coffee table! 😃
One idea about the top would be to put a glass over it. You know? Perhaps making little Lego pieces to put in the between, so the glass doesn't touch the gear. 😉
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
You are the MAX in woodworking! Stunning piece of art!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍❤️
Awesome project like always.... Keep it up brother..
Hi Frank and greetings from an Australian maker.
This one outstanding project and design.
Your patience and attention to detail is amazing and I love how you edit and present your videos.
Regards and thanks
James
You are a genius... but I feel it miss one leg
Surely the legs should be those cross-section axle rods... 😀
You know, I would actually make this into an actual LEGO product and also add in some places in which LEGO could be stored, like little plastic containers inside of the holes where the vast majority of the smaller pieces could be stored, and having those little slits that are in the middle turned into places to store most kinds of Baseplates. (I just wished that some of the larger LEGO Elements were easier to store, including those Classic Space/Futuron I Crater Baseplates, though.)
Man that 2.5D CNC layer method sounds like a lot of trouble....I can't believe you didn't just model the whole gear in fusion360, and CAM it all in one shot ...🤔...seems like a lot of extra work for a pretty basic modeling job....
Awesome stop go photography as always and great idea of project.
Oops I got ahead of my comment..you do have a metaldetector! Great work! (note: commend AFTER watching Frank's video)..I guess you could say "you nailed it with that Lego coffee table top!"
I would have hobbed it, but I have a bunch of hobbers at my disposal.
What is the pressure angle on Lego gears?
I just want to say 2 things. 1) What a way to persevere, WOW! 2) I should have seen the cat inspection/approval coming, but I didn't, my bad.
Woodworking is just problem solving art 😁. Great job Frank
I lusually love Frank's work. But this feels like it has just too many -fixes-. With tthe bacon bowtie inlays and the blocks and the multi colored wood.
I know it's not Franks fault, but I woul've given up on that wood piece.
Really cool, my son just finished the 7500pc Lego Millennium Falcon, maybe turning that into a dining table could be your next project, haha!
Did you know LEGO is short in danish for “leg godt”, which can be translated to something in the way like “play well” or “have fun” 😊
make a glass top ? - custom piece from clear epoxy with the 8 nobules facing down to afix to top
like a 'sectioned wheel' with the 'glass' inserts making 4+centre windows showing the gear below
ending with a flat topped coffee table ? - great ingenuity making these pieces, much respect.
Most times I don't even care what you're making. It's the process of how you figure things and make it work that is really impressive.
Cool idea dear man. Can you send the 2d files of the lego parts? Thanks 🙏👍💫
Re losing your 0,0 position on a job on the CNC machine; (painful) experience has taught me to home the machine before I start a job, reset the coordinates, then when I find the point on the table surface that I want to use as the origin for the job I write down the current coordinates before I set them to 0,0. Assuming your machine's homing operation is pretty repeatable, it means you can get back to your job's 0,0 position in the event of a failure. It's saved a job more than once for me.
Frank, I take it you are not doing 3D toolpath and instead are running pocket and profile. How and why? I could only find an STL or STP at GrabCad
Sometimes form trumps function, right? Love it but it would be a disaster except in a gallery or under glass.🤣🤣🤣
Interesting project! Can't wait to see what accessories you design for the table next. The cat though, seem pretty puzzled with the table...
Great result and awesome documentation of the process to get there. If you ever want to redo the legs, the little lightsaber hilts would be a piece that would work in Lego scale :) part no 64567, gives sort of a more technical look
It is always fun to see the ideas and creative way of making the things you first had a idea about. I been following you for many years, and when i see you have made a new video, i know i will have a great time watching what you have been making this time. I hope you have had a great summer, with a lot of fun with family and friends. We have had a summer of rain, but still had some nice moments, Take care, and keep up the amazing work, from Jan in Norway
Super cool video love seeing you're creations. I've done a bit of metal detection and I that hobby we use a pinpointer. A small metal detector. I think it could help you greatly in you're making.
Did you consider just cutting one side, leaving the live edge and filling it with epoxy resin? Then you could have a Lego gear table t hats flat on the top and more "usable."
Can we get more info about the helper C-clamp that's at the end of all your videos? his/her name? history? How he got into clamping. etc etc.
Frank did you see your response to me about about I won a prize and I should send you a TELEGRAM ????
I love you videos and I love the ideas that you come up with. (I think you should cut some coasters that look like Lego piece 4073!)
I've watched the whole video just to get an answer to my wondering "why did he carve a 40 teeth Lego gear (twice) ?"
I reckon you need some LEGO pieces to complete the top, Frank. Allow your guests to earn their cup of coffee by putting it together.
I must say that i realy love this project a lot! Ha ha!
I think it would be easy to make holders for coffecups or breadplats to the holes in the table, perhaps flat pieces that looks like real LEGO?
Your ability to navigate the materials and tools makes me smile. Thanks for sharing the Bacon Bowties and Waffles.
I really like this, Frank. It will be a great conversation piece. What I think would be neat, if possible, is to make actual cups that the very bottom will fit into the gear holes, like the little nubs on the tops of the Lego blocks, in addition to coasters.
Does Lego produce any pieces in Wood? Aluminum, Iron or, Steel?
Just a thought.
A thick glass top cut to the inner diameter of the the outer tooth ring plus maybe a sixteenth of overhang over that outer tooth ring would look and work great. You'd have just enough overhang so something wouldn't fall of the edge of the glass into the gear's middle and still have most of the outer tooth ring exposed for the look and feel. Lots of LEGO sets use some sort of decorative disc on top of gears like that.
Hahaha 😆 😂 I can't get enough of your sound effects... I love them, awesome video.
Frank, great video as always. If there is one video I would like to see from you is doing the computer work. You just do not turn on the router and it "knows" what to do . Ralph
I used to enjoy watching Frank work, but watching his CNC machine work is no fun for me.
How to make a segmented LEGO gear... start with a perfect piece of wood with loads of nails in it and be very patient 🙂
Ahh those damned nails! I suspect you'll use a metal detector in future to ensure that you don't encounter similar problems. Another great project! 👍
For the top maybe you can make a negative pattern on a clear plexiglass that fits to the lego. and I'm worried that the snug legs break the rings, cause they are not thick enough.
Where was the Homer saying “bed goes down” when let down the router bed? I always listen for that now! 😂 Love the Lego table!
I was hoping the circles in the gear were the right diameter for a taller travel coffee mug to fit into. Thank you for these videos Frank, they always inspire me to keep at whatever project is in front of me.
Phenomenal as always Frank! If I found that much metal in a piece I would have probably started over! I admire your patience and persistence!
You could have done the legs as a bunch of 1x1x1 and 1x1x3 round pieces. Use different woods for each piece.
You’re back! 👋
You could have kept that burr and called it a "mold line." Great work as always!
Flatten the coasters and make them the kinetic part and turn them various sizes and or shapes (also yes gears don't have to be only circular)
Little 1x1 lego studs would be the perfect coasters for this! Wonderful video as always