When the first try prototype fits together perfectly. You know you’ve come along way in the CNC universe. Frank I don’t comment much here but I watch everything you do. This was fantastic. always love to see how your mind works sir!!
@@frankmakes Amen ! Incredible work! Only thing I wonder about is - because the shaft for the gear extrudes "into" the bottom of the box - won't it make the objects laying in it move around ?
I love watching people that have done the work so seriously, so detailed, and with such love that it is almost magic to see what it is they make and how they make it.
There should be a way to use the wood grain as a visual "fingerprint," mount a camera on the ceiling or the CNC gantry itself, take an image of the wood grain at three points, and then if you take the piece off and put it back on the table, the camera can find those reference points and adjust the gantry's coordinates to allow for any changes. That's more a coding issue though, something more appropriate for Stuff Made Here.
Perhaps I am picking up more of your tips and tricks of the CNC machine and you've always done it, but I appreciate you taking the time to explain the importance of the tolerances between the rough pass and finishing pass, as well as showing how to deal with the end chips when cutting the pins! Great video as always, I always learn something!
Frank, I love it. Once again you managed to combine art, ingenuity, and craftsmanship, transforming the mundane toolbox into a unique expression of Frank. Nice.
I don't think I deserve to think that I can give you an idea. Your engineering skills have fascinated us for years. My son and I have a 4x4 CNC table. Our projects often are larger than 4x4. We drill an index hole at some point then when we move the large sheet we re-zero to that hole. When your drawer slipped having an index hole or two might help realign your piece. I humbly submit my comment. We love your videos.
After so many years watching your videos, I realized I've never ever fast forward them, not even 10 secs.. your content is amazing! Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
I'm very interested in linguistics and always jump at the opportunity to learn industry jargon. I have been a machinist for a long time yet these terms precise definitions were new to me until I was recently enlightened by a viewer on another video. On the off chance that you have the same interest, I'm going to share what I learned. A gear by definition, transfers force by use of its teeth. A rack is just an infinite gear. The consideration of using dowels sort of like DaVinci's gears, would technically be cogs. Apparently, a cog by definition transfers force by use of the spokes. It is irrelevant to the definition if the spokes are on the circumference or at 90° to the circumference. There is also such thing as a cog rack. If you can imagine for example machine chain being used as the track for sprockets to walk along it, that would be an example of a cog rack. Maybe this is meaningless pedantics to you, but I was very happy to learn the information so I decided to pass it along
Love the box. Maybe putting some covers on the inside gears to protect them from screws and other small parts that would inevitably land in the tote might help
This is so cool! I wonder what would happen if you forwarded the challenge to someone else in the Maker’s Mob so they can add on to Jimmy’s and yours designs? I’m pretty sure once you get through everyone, the Toolbox will be a sentient being.
I love this channel, I subscribed to hundreds, but any time I see a Frank Howarth video pop up, I wait... I wait for the muse... I wait until I am in a state of relaxation, where I can sit down uninterrupted, and enjoy the entirety of it from start to finish... An immediately after, I scurry out to my shop, and plan my next ambition. Thanks for being and inspiration and a mentor..
Frank, you are a highly creative person. This is an excellent project, and your detailed description of your thought process and how you handled issues was super educational. Thank you.
That is really cool. Now everyone has a real reason to get a CNC router. To be like Frank. Sometimes tool technology comes along before the project design innovation has caught up. With this box, design innovation has now put the ball back in the CNC maker's court. Well done!
Ah, Frank, I enjoy your videos so much! Your sharing of your thought process, the follow-through, and execution, your relief when the whole thing works are educational, humorous, and endearing. Thanks for sharing a bit of your world.
Frank, love your stuff. That was one bit hen build. Thanks for taking Jimmy’s challenge, I think you out did yourself and took it to the next level. Thanks for doing what you do
A drawer that opens on its own? I do hope it's one of those telepathic ones that know when you want their contents and open automatically. I've always wanted to see how those are made.
Nicely done Frank! Next time you are cutting tenons (pins) in the endgrain of a board use a clockwise profile with an upcut spiral around the perimeter of the board. Center the bit ON the vector outline of the board, or slightly farther out if you have a narrow shoulder. This will leave a clean shoulder with no tearout. All following cuts around the tenon(s) can tearout but will be clean when down to the shoulder. 4D
I was wondering if an up cutting bit would be better. My test piece, that I did not show in the video, got shredded. I was using a 1/2" down cutting bit.
@@frankmakes I use 1/4" diameter spiral upcut bits unless the tenons are longer than the 1" cutting edge. I do the outer clockwise profile to make the shoulder then can usually follow up with profile cuts around the tenons. If there is more shoulder to cut down to I create pockets around that area then cut it. I also usually leave -.003 allowance between the tenons (smaller) or the mortises (larger) they fit in. Same vectors outlines for each just copied to the mortise job. Usually that gives a good slip fit with room for glue if my bits are the diameter they claim to be. 4D
"A little goofy" is great! And, if someone asks for the Frank Howarth spin and isn't expecting some whim and caprice, then I think they challenged the wrong person.
What an absolute pleasure it is to watch you at work. I am blown away at how intelligent you are and how your visions come to life. Thank you ever so much for allowing us into your shop and watch you at work . Merry Christmas from your number one 🇨🇦 fan .
Suggest that you replace the small actuating gear with a lever that is offset to be close to the side of the tool box and pull to open on whichever side you pull the lever. Straight up would be closed. Looks like it would work with the reduction you already designed in.
I'm with Chris from "A Glimpse inside". Long time watcher as well. And a big fan. And everything else Chris said I totally agree with. Thanks for another great one Frank.
Hey Frank. Could you incorporate a couple of locating holes into each of your CNC plans, where your bit initially pokes two holes at opposite ends of the base material? Then if the base material happens to slip out of position, you could start over by resetting the program, positioning the bit at each of those locations, tightening down the board in its original position and starting over. Is that as unclear to you as it feels to me? LOL. Really enjoyed your spin on Jimmy's design.
Since your using the tote for glue up items, I would be worried that glue might drip on the interior dowels and gum up the works. Maybe a false bottom or covers for the dowels would be a good idea.
I was just filling it with glue paraphernalia and was wondering about a piece on the bottom to cover the dowers but also to hold things like, brushes, roll of tape the glue bottle....
Hi Frank! Could you make it so that when you lift the handle, it pulls the gears to close the drawer? So you could just pick it straight up by the handle and the drawer would close
Your projects with mechanisms always make the best videos! I like hearing about your lessons learned too, makes me feel like I learned something as well.
Instead of glueing the project perhaps using screws to fasten it, that way if something gets jammed, breaks or needs adjustment it's easier to disassemble and fix whatever.
Love the movement of the bottom drawer! Now to finding a clever way to never eject the drawer unless you meaningfully want to disassemble the box. Maybe there is some room under the drawer as a cut out that some stops can be placed in V2. So there is a hidden pocket that drawer has with 2 different sets of stops. If you can hold off from installing one of the lengthwise panels until the drawer is seated, then the side can be added as one of the final steps.
Amazing project, I think it would be really cool if the draw was divided in half lengthwise so there was a visual stop to wind it one way or the other!
Have you ever tried the plastic nails from a nail gun for securing pieces on the cnc? Then if the bit hits them, it's no big deal, and I think they break with a tap from the side.
This is super cool. Frank always does awesome things. My only worry is that the gears on the inside will catch something and bind up. You can easily clear them to get it moving, but it might be a slight inconvenience at times.
New to your channel somehow... I love this style of presentation. Show the work, with voice over explaining what/why you're doing it. Good stuff, and your shop looks amazing. Love the natural light.
Wow. What an interesting project (especially the gear-driven drawer). [if you had a hidden drawer in a desk or table/cabinet, having it gear driven could help conceal/hide the opening mechanism, though you'd have to disguise the turning knob, or make the knob detachable, etc.]
What a totally amazing video. I've watched it 3 times now, totally superb. That grab handle is wonderful. Those gears could power my life and then some... 😁😁. Love the last step is critical. Absolutely lives up to the challenge sir. 👍👍
So coo! Of course it raises the question of form over function. I guess it remains to be seen if this is an improvement or a hindrance. In the best of all worlds, you could still pull on the drawer directly and it will not bind, but rather the gears would rotate freely. Then I'd love to see how often somebody would go for the gear handle and how often they would just pull on the drawer.
Hi. @Frank I don’t know that software you use to do the tool pathing. I use to use rhinocam. Great plugin for rhino. But with regards to the parts and the bridging. I found if you move the curve seam of the part you are cutting to the end of a long side you will have less chance of the part moving when it comes loose. Also we use to have a vacuum on the table that helps a lot. As a general rule. If you stand in front of the table with your home on the bottom left. I would always cut from home to the top right of the machine bed and try and nest your parts in such a way that you have along edge to end on as close to the top right as possible, that way you always end up cutting the part loose right next to a big piece of material. Your are welcome to contact me if you don’t understand. I have about 9 years of cnc cutting under the belt. I found a great way to prep drawings in rhino for cutting.
So much for my hopes of seeing a choreographed stop-frame number with the drawer opening and closing on its own while the box does a little two-step with a gratuitous gear flourish. I suppose the animation playing in my imagination will have to suffice.
I was smiling the entire time!! loved the line you said .. "I make stuff so precise if the last part fails I have no project"
🤣🤣🤣🤣 love and respect!!
Frank took the your own "spin" on it challenge literally.
I'd like to say the same about my precision... I think my problem lies more in my lack of skills than in my set of skills though 🥲
hahaha i love that too, i do the same thing EVERY time! hahaha
But he wasn't saying anything about precision.
When the first try prototype fits together perfectly. You know you’ve come along way in the CNC universe. Frank I don’t comment much here but I watch everything you do. This was fantastic. always love to see how your mind works sir!!
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I love it when it just works! That was fun!
i love how Frank, an expert, still learns new stuff about the craft on every project. Protect this man at all costs
never too good to get a lot better.
@@frankmakes Amen !
Incredible work! Only thing I wonder about is - because the shaft for the gear extrudes "into" the bottom of the box - won't it make the objects laying in it move around ?
Seriously 👍
@@Nissimus my impression is the shafts sit below the drawer (and not thru the storage section) so it should be fine noh?
Drinking game: Take a sip every time Frank does his little chuckle.
Great work Frank. I should have subscribed sooner.
🍷🥴
ha ha!
@@frankmakes drink :)
That two note, "I'm very silly" laugh! That shame of it is that he's getting so good that this, he's very silly less and less often.
I love simple projects that are made needlessly complicated! That's not sarcasm... I really do love it!
incredible!!! Thank You Brother what an honor!
The Orignal TH-cam MAKER makes a project of mine😊😊😊😊
Thanks you for the great design.
I love watching people that have done the work so seriously, so detailed, and with such love that it is almost magic to see what it is they make and how they make it.
There should be a way to use the wood grain as a visual "fingerprint," mount a camera on the ceiling or the CNC gantry itself, take an image of the wood grain at three points, and then if you take the piece off and put it back on the table, the camera can find those reference points and adjust the gantry's coordinates to allow for any changes. That's more a coding issue though, something more appropriate for Stuff Made Here.
Perhaps I am picking up more of your tips and tricks of the CNC machine and you've always done it, but I appreciate you taking the time to explain the importance of the tolerances between the rough pass and finishing pass, as well as showing how to deal with the end chips when cutting the pins! Great video as always, I always learn something!
Frank, I love it. Once again you managed to combine art, ingenuity, and craftsmanship, transforming the mundane toolbox into a unique expression of Frank. Nice.
I don't think I deserve to think that I can give you an idea. Your engineering skills have fascinated us for years. My son and I have a 4x4 CNC table. Our projects often are larger than 4x4. We drill an index hole at some point then when we move the large sheet we re-zero to that hole. When your drawer slipped having an index hole or two might help realign your piece. I humbly submit my comment. We love your videos.
Jimmey DiResta: Makes something that looks cool.
Frank Howarth: Makes something that is cool.
3:28 - Two table saws together as a work table = "mind blown" emoji 🤯 !!! Go Fred
Wow. Thanks for this. Unreal what you guys can do.
After so many years watching your videos, I realized I've never ever fast forward them, not even 10 secs.. your content is amazing! Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
That is so nifty, Frank. Congratulations. Maybe some wax on the gears and drawer slides will aid in keeping things running smoothly?
I would consider this project but I don't have a lathe to sand my dowels lol.
I'm very interested in linguistics and always jump at the opportunity to learn industry jargon. I have been a machinist for a long time yet these terms precise definitions were new to me until I was recently enlightened by a viewer on another video. On the off chance that you have the same interest, I'm going to share what I learned. A gear by definition, transfers force by use of its teeth. A rack is just an infinite gear. The consideration of using dowels sort of like DaVinci's gears, would technically be cogs. Apparently, a cog by definition transfers force by use of the spokes. It is irrelevant to the definition if the spokes are on the circumference or at 90° to the circumference. There is also such thing as a cog rack. If you can imagine for example machine chain being used as the track for sprockets to walk along it, that would be an example of a cog rack. Maybe this is meaningless pedantics to you, but I was very happy to learn the information so I decided to pass it along
FRANK YOUR A GREAT GEAR HEAD.LOL LOVE THE BOX .FROM DOUG😀😀
👍🏾 This is our generation's Leonardo da Vinci. Fantastic.
Your CNC tips are so incredibly helpful! Thank you!!
I smiled at your explanation of excellence at the end about precision. It's the thought process of a great thinker. Great job!!
Drawer goes in, drawer goes out
Love the box. Maybe putting some covers on the inside gears to protect them from screws and other small parts that would inevitably land in the tote might help
Absolutely fantastic Frank…..genius at work 👍🇬🇧
Great job Frank. You never cease to amaze me.
A very interesting adaptation to someone else’s design. I like it. Very cool.
This is so cool! I wonder what would happen if you forwarded the challenge to someone else in the Maker’s Mob so they can add on to Jimmy’s and yours designs?
I’m pretty sure once you get through everyone, the Toolbox will be a sentient being.
Good idea!
All it would need to become sentient, is pass it to Matthias.
@@anathaetownsend1894 which Matthias is that?
@@andrejohnson6731 Wandel. He will do his magic with a RasperryPi computer.
@@gus23a that is correct.
I love this channel, I subscribed to hundreds, but any time I see a Frank Howarth video pop up, I wait... I wait for the muse... I wait until I am in a state of relaxation, where I can sit down uninterrupted, and enjoy the entirety of it from start to finish... An immediately after, I scurry out to my shop, and plan my next ambition. Thanks for being and inspiration and a mentor..
Frank, you are a highly creative person. This is an excellent project, and your detailed description of your thought process and how you handled issues was super educational. Thank you.
That is really cool. Now everyone has a real reason to get a CNC router. To be like Frank. Sometimes tool technology comes along before the project design innovation has caught up. With this box, design innovation has now put the ball back in the CNC maker's court. Well done!
Ah, Frank, I enjoy your videos so much! Your sharing of your thought process, the follow-through, and execution, your relief when the whole thing works are educational, humorous, and endearing.
Thanks for sharing a bit of your world.
Frank, love your stuff. That was one bit hen build. Thanks for taking Jimmy’s challenge, I think you out did yourself and took it to the next level. Thanks for doing what you do
Love this!
A drawer that opens on its own? I do hope it's one of those telepathic ones that know when you want their contents and open automatically. I've always wanted to see how those are made.
Always something to get the gears turning. Fun take on the classic tool tote, and definitely has your fingerprints on it. Thanks for sharing!
Nicely done Frank! Next time you are cutting tenons (pins) in the endgrain of a board use a clockwise profile with an upcut spiral around the perimeter of the board. Center the bit ON the vector outline of the board, or slightly farther out if you have a narrow shoulder. This will leave a clean shoulder with no tearout. All following cuts around the tenon(s) can tearout but will be clean when down to the shoulder.
4D
I was wondering if an up cutting bit would be better. My test piece, that I did not show in the video, got shredded. I was using a 1/2" down cutting bit.
@@frankmakes I use 1/4" diameter spiral upcut bits unless the tenons are longer than the 1" cutting edge. I do the outer clockwise profile to make the shoulder then can usually follow up with profile cuts around the tenons. If there is more shoulder to cut down to I create pockets around that area then cut it. I also usually leave -.003 allowance between the tenons (smaller) or the mortises (larger) they fit in. Same vectors outlines for each just copied to the mortise job. Usually that gives a good slip fit with room for glue if my bits are the diameter they claim to be.
4D
"A little goofy" is great! And, if someone asks for the Frank Howarth spin and isn't expecting some whim and caprice, then I think they challenged the wrong person.
You didn't disappoint Frank 👌👍
I know I'll never own a cnc machine.
I know I have no patience for computer programs.
But I know I enjoy watching you make your projects Frank.
Frank you can CRUSH this little job
Challenge Met 👍👍
Very cool. Thank you!
Frank, you are having way too much fun with that CNC :-)
What an absolute pleasure it is to watch you at work. I am blown away at how intelligent you are and how your visions come to life. Thank you ever so much for allowing us into your shop and watch you at work . Merry Christmas from your number one 🇨🇦 fan .
Frank you are on another level. I really really enjoy watching your projects.
Nice work. The only thing that's missing is a cnc'd name across the front, like "Jimmy's Glue Box" 👍😊
Really creative twist on the Diresta build. Great video!
The Swiss watch of tool boxes! Nice video.
working with a CNC takes all the fun out of woodworking
Have you considered cutting locator holes on the underside of the board, so you can just peg pieces into place for reusable references?
Suggest that you replace the small actuating gear with a lever that is offset to be close to the side of the tool box and pull to open on whichever side you pull the lever.
Straight up would be closed. Looks like it would work with the reduction you already designed in.
So cool. I also look forward to catching glimpses of this in future videos when a glue-up happens.
I'm with Chris from "A Glimpse inside". Long time watcher as well. And a big fan. And everything else Chris said I totally agree with. Thanks for another great one Frank.
Such an unbelievably over engineered project. And I absolutely loved it! Go big or go home.
Your little chuckle makes me laugh 😂 great content!
Hey Frank. Could you incorporate a couple of locating holes into each of your CNC plans, where your bit initially pokes two holes at opposite ends of the base material? Then if the base material happens to slip out of position, you could start over by resetting the program, positioning the bit at each of those locations, tightening down the board in its original position and starting over. Is that as unclear to you as it feels to me? LOL. Really enjoyed your spin on Jimmy's design.
Since your using the tote for glue up items, I would be worried that glue might drip on the interior dowels and gum up the works. Maybe a false bottom or covers for the dowels would be a good idea.
Bonus idea - make that false bottom out of ptfe sheet. Then the glue wouldn’t stick at all, and could just be dumped/wiped out when it dries
I was just filling it with glue paraphernalia and was wondering about a piece on the bottom to cover the dowers but also to hold things like, brushes, roll of tape the glue bottle....
Your lo lovely laugh always makes me happy Frank 🧡
That is immensely satisfying.
Awesome work, as always.
Great toolbox, Frank. I like your CNC tips and advice. Eat your heart out, Jimmy.
Bill
Hi Frank! Could you make it so that when you lift the handle, it pulls the gears to close the drawer? So you could just pick it straight up by the handle and the drawer would close
Jimmy: "...put your own spin on it."
Frank: "Spin? GEARS!!!"
this is insane. insanity level - Izzy. in a good way, ofcourse. and a whole lotta CNC tips. Thanks!
Your projects with mechanisms always make the best videos! I like hearing about your lessons learned too, makes me feel like I learned something as well.
Ah - you got the countersink bit I recommended... Nice! 😉
Wow amazing . Wondering how it would go without using a cnc . Remember the old days lol
Great job. You make it look so easy, a master craftsman at work.
Instead of glueing the project perhaps using screws to fasten it, that way if something gets jammed, breaks or needs adjustment it's easier to disassemble and fix whatever.
Nice job, Frank!
it's like a construction set for big boys!)
Love the movement of the bottom drawer! Now to finding a clever way to never eject the drawer unless you meaningfully want to disassemble the box. Maybe there is some room under the drawer as a cut out that some stops can be placed in V2. So there is a hidden pocket that drawer has with 2 different sets of stops. If you can hold off from installing one of the lengthwise panels until the drawer is seated, then the side can be added as one of the final steps.
I love this idea Frank! Well done
Delightfully overthought. Well played, sir!
Hi Frank just brilliant , thanks ,G.
That's one sturdy toolbox
Isn't is risky to keep glue so close to such a lovely mechanism?
You must be astonishingly tidy when handling glue bottles.
*- Would bee's wax make the drawer slide better?*
*- What about bee's wax for the gears and spindle so water can't make things swell?*
It'll be interesting to see how smoothly those gears run after the glue bottle leaks over them a few times.
well done! can't believe this works, required insane precision.
Amazing project, I think it would be really cool if the draw was divided in half lengthwise so there was a visual stop to wind it one way or the other!
I hate how much I love that. Great job
Have you ever tried the plastic nails from a nail gun for securing pieces on the cnc? Then if the bit hits them, it's no big deal, and I think they break with a tap from the side.
This is super cool. Frank always does awesome things. My only worry is that the gears on the inside will catch something and bind up. You can easily clear them to get it moving, but it might be a slight inconvenience at times.
New to your channel somehow... I love this style of presentation. Show the work, with voice over explaining what/why you're doing it. Good stuff, and your shop looks amazing. Love the natural light.
13:25 I was expecting a Diresta icepick tbh
Wow. What an interesting project (especially the gear-driven drawer). [if you had a hidden drawer in a desk or table/cabinet, having it gear driven could help conceal/hide the opening mechanism, though you'd have to disguise the turning knob, or make the knob detachable, etc.]
What a totally amazing video. I've watched it 3 times now, totally superb. That grab handle is wonderful. Those gears could power my life and then some... 😁😁. Love the last step is critical. Absolutely lives up to the challenge sir. 👍👍
Franktastic, nice job, really cool gear
Super nice, thanks for sharing.
So coo!
Of course it raises the question of form over function.
I guess it remains to be seen if this is an improvement or a hindrance.
In the best of all worlds, you could still pull on the drawer directly and it will not bind, but rather the gears would rotate freely.
Then I'd love to see how often somebody would go for the gear handle and how often they would just pull on the drawer.
Fantastic project, sir.
wow! @18:22 I was surprised to see the 8 hp spindle bog down to a stop
I never used bridges, the dust holds the part in place! Like you mentioned…
Hi. @Frank I don’t know that software you use to do the tool pathing. I use to use rhinocam. Great plugin for rhino. But with regards to the parts and the bridging. I found if you move the curve seam of the part you are cutting to the end of a long side you will have less chance of the part moving when it comes loose. Also we use to have a vacuum on the table that helps a lot. As a general rule. If you stand in front of the table with your home on the bottom left. I would always cut from home to the top right of the machine bed and try and nest your parts in such a way that you have along edge to end on as close to the top right as possible, that way you always end up cutting the part loose right next to a big piece of material. Your are welcome to contact me if you don’t understand. I have about 9 years of cnc cutting under the belt. I found a great way to prep drawings in rhino for cutting.
Awesome, Frank. Very cool!
How Steampunk, Frank. Cool!
I love colaborations and challenges :)
The next tool box with drawer thingy Version 2.0 should include a cordless powered drawer operator using a remote control.
So much for my hopes of seeing a choreographed stop-frame number with the drawer opening and closing on its own while the box does a little two-step with a gratuitous gear flourish.
I suppose the animation playing in my imagination will have to suffice.