@Mirnes07 in my course we build the board and all the pieces... we did the knight on a milling we used copper for the dark ones and stainless for the white and for the board we used brass and 4140 steel (for the squares) and we build a frame with 12l14 mild steel
They do this to show the high precision of chuck, and gentle holding of working piece. After reinserting chess bishop, positioning precission is still at high level, and we see no vibration when it rotates.
I made several chess sets out of aluminum using square bar stock. Each 48' bar was milled using the straddle mill technique. Then the bar was turned on its side to give it that particular identification, whether it was a knight or pawn. Then each piece was cut to length, sanded to break sharp corners, polished and painted on the top signifying whether it was black or white. It is very time consuming.
That was so cool to watch. I'm wondering what material the shaving parts were made of, and how often they would have to be replaced though. Anyone able to tell me?
+Breaking Elegance I feel your pain.. They'll make a lot more money in bit, & parts sales too. :) Might put their enterprise customers out of business though. lol
@controlanddelete This is a live tooling lathe. It can turn, mill, and drill whatever you want almost. Mori Seiki is my favorite machine to work on. We have 2 NL2000Y with a programable tailstock, and a few other Mori's. Built like a rock.....
what is the farthest the human eye can see, and what is the limit mind capability of inventing and reinventing? The intelligence in this should bring us together rather than kill each other. A lovely and neat work only to bring the best product. Keep on.
If you part off an aluminum piece like that there is a good chance of dinging it. It is a very large chess piece and that would really fly around if it didn't fall perfectly.
This is a great video and all, but holy crap man, that background music is fricken' AWESOME!!!! Really, who'd of thought to rock out to a chess piece being constructed?
Aside from being on the slow side, I would have to agree. I run CNC lathe at work and often find myself watching rather intently at the entire process (when I have "free time" of course).
I get to do this stuff every day at work, folks. Been a CNC Machinist for 6 years. We don't make Chess pieces, but we do some pretty cool parts for the company I work for. All in-house work. We run mostly Haas machines, with our latest addition being a DS-30SSY. Live tooling is a beautiful thing! Questions incoming! What alloy do you guys use? 6061? Looks like standard, what, 1.5 bar stock? Why not program it to hand off to the sub-spindle? It would save you some hands on time. :D
A few questions.1. Why are you using a left hand turning tool? (a 35deg. RH tool should have worked) 2. Why are you conventional cutting the i.d. with the end mill 3. Why are you running the boring bar upside down.(the chips recut with the bore bar inverted)4. Why not part off and finish with sub spindle? Not that I know anything...
@GlacernMachineTools what was the sample material?.. if you dont mind me asking.. and was that carbide tooling? REALLY clean pieces. and beautiful cut on the collet ;)
This is the most conservative machining of aluminum ever. Cycle time could have been halved with proper speeds and feeds and wipers for finishing. 1000 sfm minimum with carbide.
XIDED I was simply saying that the stated speeds where very conservative at the beginning of the video, just seems if they wanted to showcase their tools they'd state higher speeds.
Lucas Reichennek FYI it's kennametal tooling (glacern doesn't make tools). wipers won't help with curved profiles, but larger tool radii would do the trick.
Like the engraving capability, this video might just persuade our MD to invest in retro-fitting power feed to our old Cincinnati Hawk 150. As a matter of interest why remove the piece, saw it off then machine the bottom instead of just parting it off, not the best finish but who's going to see it ?
Hello, in school we were asigned to make our own project, it could be anything. So i searched youtube for CNC art and found this, i then showed the video to my friend that i was going to do the project with and he thought we shoud do our own chess board with the chess pieces deisgned in CNC. We figured out how to do all pieces except the knight.. So i was wondering if you could share some tips and tricks in regards to making the knight. Btw, nice video :)
That's coolant. Keeps your tools from burning up. The fact that he ran this part dry, for the purposes of recording this video, means he doesn't mind shaving considerable tool life off of his tools and inserts. :P
How much pressure are you applying on the soft chucks to grip the head of the piece? Since its aluminum and can easely lose its shape and grip if there is applied too much pressure on it?
When working with metal, not a single gram goes to waste. We manufacturer around 10,000 tools a year in our small work shop and from that we barrel about 2 tonnes of filings etc. All goes to the scrappy and pays for a Christmas dinner for the staff.
You can buy Italfama chess pieces. High end ones are made out of brass and nickel coated brass. Just a heads up though, they are EXPENSIVE! Just an example, a set with a 4.5" king is around $1,300
FluffMuncher I already have a brass set so i'll pass on that offer :) But you can machine a set and put a $10,000 tag on it if you wish. That doesn't mean someone will buy it though. I have a video of the chess set i'm talking about on my channel if you want to have a look at it.
Oh come on Sol, Ive bought facemills and tool holders from you and their great nothing else could beat them for their price!!! But could you please share the name of the song with us??? lol.
I'd love to see a video of all the pieces and even the board being made. I think ceramic tile and a nice wood base and trim be very nice touch for a board along with the aluminum pieces.
Judging by the size of the rook along side the tech's hand . . . . and the cost of aluminum . . . . and the labour . . . . I'd have to say a complete set would run close to $45 000.
one of the best made videos in TH-cam,and the machining involved is top of the Edge...Great CAD/CAM programming dude..
Scale is everything - I was surprised at the size of the piece. Thx for the video.
There's just something very mesmerizing at seeing something being created on a lathe machine like this.
@Mirnes07 in my course we build the board and all the pieces... we did the knight on a milling
we used copper for the dark ones and stainless for the white
and for the board we used brass and 4140 steel (for the squares) and we build a frame with 12l14 mild steel
Such an enthralling process... and fantastic filming!
They do this to show the high precision of chuck, and gentle holding of working piece. After reinserting chess bishop, positioning precission is still at high level, and we see no vibration when it rotates.
I would like to see it make a Knight! That would impress me.
+Dan_from_Epsilon_Crucis It can be done on a a 5-axis machine with the right programing software.
wow! that video changed the way i look at my cnc at work now. awesome!
I love being in the world on machinery and using it
Ultimate finishing and speed. I like this machining video.
I made several chess sets out of aluminum using square bar stock. Each 48' bar was milled using the straddle mill technique. Then the bar was turned on its side to give it that particular identification, whether it was a knight or pawn. Then each piece was cut to length, sanded to break sharp corners, polished and painted on the top signifying whether it was black or white. It is very time consuming.
The precision, it's beautiful.
Awesome finish, as well as the details around the base. Now I'd like to see how that CNC deals with a horse...
What a beautiful machine.
It is possible that the music is either royalty-free stock or was produced by the company that did the post production.
sit for hours watching one of those machines !
That was so cool to watch. I'm wondering what material the shaving parts were made of, and how often they would have to be replaced though. Anyone able to tell me?
I don't know why but it's so satisfying for someone to say someone got here from cracked.
amazing videos thanks!
thats the first lathe i have seen with a bandsaw.
i learnt a lot from your other videos. had to subscribe!
Make a damn home use CNC Lathe for proto-typers with easy to use software to go with it and build a kickstarter campaign and you guys will rock
+Breaking Elegance I feel your pain.. They'll make a lot more money in bit, & parts sales too. :) Might put their enterprise customers out of business though. lol
+Breaking Elegance Tormach lathe, 11,000 gets you a nice lathe, or build one...
would love to work with one of these one day
You make work look like fun , of course most of the time I'm turning 310 stainless parts.
All this just for one piece, incredible :).
machining is an art!
thank you for this beautiful video!
@controlanddelete This is a live tooling lathe. It can turn, mill, and drill whatever you want almost. Mori Seiki is my favorite machine to work on. We have 2 NL2000Y with a programable tailstock, and a few other Mori's. Built like a rock.....
if you love tech this, you dream of it.
i could watch this for hours.
the machines work so perfect ahhh beatiful
what is the farthest the human eye can see, and what is the limit mind capability of inventing and reinventing? The intelligence in this should bring us together rather than kill each other. A lovely and neat work only to bring the best product. Keep on.
If you part off an aluminum piece like that there is a good chance of dinging it. It is a very large chess piece and that would really fly around if it didn't fall perfectly.
This is a great video and all, but holy crap man, that background music is fricken' AWESOME!!!! Really, who'd of thought to rock out to a chess piece being constructed?
Aside from being on the slow side, I would have to agree. I run CNC lathe at work and often find myself watching rather intently at the entire process (when I have "free time" of course).
Very nice video ! Superb music choice, and fine metal working !
Congrats !
hey! can you tell me which music do I listen to?
damn.... son. I funna get me some Glacern tools
Everything is the greatest thing since sliced bread when you're a machinist. And there is always something better just beyond.
Lovely slicing and drilling
I get to do this stuff every day at work, folks. Been a CNC Machinist for 6 years.
We don't make Chess pieces, but we do some pretty cool parts for the company I work for. All in-house work.
We run mostly Haas machines, with our latest addition being a DS-30SSY. Live tooling is a beautiful thing!
Questions incoming!
What alloy do you guys use? 6061? Looks like standard, what, 1.5 bar stock?
Why not program it to hand off to the sub-spindle? It would save you some hands on time. :D
cnc lathe is pretty cool
this machine is sooo tight!!!! i wish i ran one. i run a bridgeport! im gunna talk to my boss about this one!
A few questions.1. Why are you using a left hand turning tool? (a 35deg. RH tool should have worked) 2. Why are you conventional cutting the i.d. with the end mill 3. Why are you running the boring bar upside down.(the chips recut with the bore bar inverted)4. Why not part off and finish with sub spindle? Not that I know anything...
Make a horsie.
TREMENDOUS MACHINE!
would be awesome if there was a video of a cnc machining all the pieces from a chess board
greatest money shot i have ever seen at 3:12
Does your company does its own video production? I really like the After Effects work.
@GlacernMachineTools what was the sample material?.. if you dont mind me asking..
and was that carbide tooling?
REALLY clean pieces. and beautiful cut on the collet ;)
Very nice demo~
Anyone know what song was used? I kinda like it!
Man I wish whoever made these GMT videos would tell who made the music for all of them. Been trying to find out since I first saw one.
This is the most conservative machining of aluminum ever. Cycle time could have been halved with proper speeds and feeds and wipers for finishing. 1000 sfm minimum with carbide.
You realize several parts of the video were slowed down considerably to allow for better viewing?
XIDED I was simply saying that the stated speeds where very conservative at the beginning of the video, just seems if they wanted to showcase their tools they'd state higher speeds.
***** true, but the set up cost for casting means it's in a league of its own. You can't compare machining to casting, but you can machine better.
Lucas Reichennek FYI it's kennametal tooling (glacern doesn't make tools). wipers won't help with curved profiles, but larger tool radii would do the trick.
This is oddly satisfying.
Like the engraving capability, this video might just persuade our MD to invest in retro-fitting power feed to our old Cincinnati Hawk 150. As a matter of interest why remove the piece, saw it off then machine the bottom instead of just parting it off, not the best finish but who's going to see it ?
Machining is beautiful!
Hello, in school we were asigned to make our own project, it could be anything. So i searched youtube for CNC art and found this, i then showed the video to my friend that i was going to do the project with and he thought we shoud do our own chess board with the chess pieces deisgned in CNC. We figured out how to do all pieces except the knight.. So i was wondering if you could share some tips and tricks in regards to making the knight. Btw, nice video :)
That's absolutely awesome.
That's coolant. Keeps your tools from burning up. The fact that he ran this part dry, for the purposes of recording this video, means he doesn't mind shaving considerable tool life off of his tools and inserts. :P
How much pressure are you applying on the soft chucks to grip the head of the piece? Since its aluminum and can easely lose its shape and grip if there is applied too much pressure on it?
Very nice video. I can't wait until machines like that are 30 years old and all broken down so I can afford 'em.
That is a massive rook.
great work. really nice rook
beautiful programming !!
Better than a 3D printer.
this is excellent and brillant job
Awesome video. :) I have a question though. Do they recycle the parts that get machined off?
3:30 OMG human intervention!
so beautiful and calming.
Mind was blown watching the video
Awesome!
very good turning.
wat is d name of the song?
are you sure? chip breakage is not easy while cutting aluminum, right?
Love to have one my garage!!
damn perfect music background, love it
after reading the comments , i went to timcallister74's channel to see how an expert does it,and what a surprise-no vid-just mouth !!!!!
What is that tool used to bore the jaws at 3:28? What is it called, we could use one at work.
It's a jaw-boring ring.
Yep,juuuust read that article
When working with metal, not a single gram goes to waste. We manufacturer around 10,000 tools a year in our small work shop and from that we barrel about 2 tonnes of filings etc. All goes to the scrappy and pays for a Christmas dinner for the staff.
How long does it to make this Rook on this machine?
Amazingly different where can i buy one of those pieces
it is inspiring
And I thought the HAAS TL1 CNC Lathe I just got in with 4 tool post for my shop was the greatest think since sliced bread.
cnc .. what a great machine ,,,
awesome machine
Where can I buy these chess pieces
its in the description....
You can't. Nobody manufactures chess pieces this way; it's far too expensive.
You can buy Italfama chess pieces. High end ones are made out of brass and nickel coated brass. Just a heads up though, they are EXPENSIVE!
Just an example, a set with a 4.5" king is around $1,300
pengasus $1300US ?? How about ill machine you a set for $1000? lol
FluffMuncher I already have a brass set so i'll pass on that offer :) But you can machine a set and put a $10,000 tag on it if you wish. That doesn't mean someone will buy it though. I have a video of the chess set i'm talking about on my channel if you want to have a look at it.
which material is best for cncs cutting tool?
Watch this on mute and at 0.5 speed with 420 by Macintosh Plus playing in the background... A E S T H E T I C
That's just beautiful :)
Oh come on Sol, Ive bought facemills and tool holders from you and their great nothing else could beat them for their price!!! But could you please share the name of the song with us??? lol.
How do they get the piece to spin perfectly straight that that? I have trouble getting drill bits to spin without wobbling.
Why is the boring bar upside down? Why don't you just part it off with an OD grooving tool instead of sawing and facing in a 2nd op?
Was the metal aluminium? The swarf wasn't as a "spring" as steel would be.
Woah, Cheese was right. This is satisfying.
I'd love to see a video of all the pieces and even the board being made. I think ceramic tile and a nice wood base and trim be very nice touch for a board along with the aluminum pieces.
Can I see a full chess set?
And the assimetric pieces? Like King, Horse,Queen...?
I work in a machine shop. Sadly, I do not get to see the parts being cut because of the oil and coolant. That is truly lovely though.
Great video! What´s the name of the song?
Marvelous!!! thanks for sharing
Judging by the size of the rook along side the tech's hand . . . . and the cost of aluminum . . . . and the labour . . . . I'd have to say a complete set would run close to $45 000.
How much are you paying for aluminum?
+Lucas Reichennek what he said
Its Beautiful!
song name? (pls don't say sandstorm)
Great video. What's the song?
One hell of a rook!
could you not have cut it with the parting tool