My husband will love watching your videos. He was a cabinet maker for 30 plus years and very intrigued with live edge wood. Outdoors with the Morgans recommended watching your videos.
Hi 👋, Martin , I am new to your work shop, That looks like a serious bit of kit and I imagine quite expensive, I am thinking of building a CNC machine or purchasing one depending on price, I am retired living in France and I’m thinking of doing some reason casting in respect of tables or something along them lines I’ve been looking at a lot of CNC machines I will last three months and just come across yours, Great territorial it’s a pity there’s no more information about it, Thank you for sharing, PHIL FROM THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOULIN FRANCE
Serious question. With the amount of money this costs why not just buy a cnc? Seems like it would be faster and would do it automatically not to mention the 1000 other things a cnc could do
Great questions! We decided on this as I didn't want to get into custom CNC work. We had an entry-level X-Carve and keeping that trammed to the table was such a pain. This machine has a 12" helical head and matching built-in drum sander. I can switch modes and continue the job in less than 10 seconds. The finish the machine leaves saves us a whole day in sanding epoxy tables. With a CNC, you still need to be in the area just in case it malfunctions, so having it automated (in my specific case) didn't matter to me. Essentially, we dry wood, flatten slabs, and build tables. I don't plan on doing anything else in my current space. This machine is perfect for us, but wouldn't be for a cabinet shop. Definitely appreciate the question :-)
Looks like a great processor for slabs. With the Flaming box Alder epoxy slab, how long did milling take before you were good to remove it for final finishing. Did you go with just one grit and what was it. Great video . Will be in touch with the manufacturer. Thanks.
This machine is great for slabs. It's so much fun to run, too. While we didn't keep a close eye on the time, I believe that slab was less than an hour total. That included flattening and an initial sanding of 120 grit on the machine. As for the rest of grits and sanding, I'll have to let Jay answer that one. :-)
Still love it! If I were to buy again, I would forego the jointer attachment (super useful but we don't need it like we thought we would) and go with a wider unit with the beefier cross brace and motorized vertical step motor. The beefed up cross brace was just recently developed but I would definitely add that to my machine.
Nice machine! That should be a big seller. If you didn't see my saemill video, I visited my ex-customer, now good friend Joe who has a homemade wood boiler and homemade sawmill based on Matthew Cremona's design. I'm trying to get Joe to get his channel going.
I'll check out the video today! I like Cremona's design a lot and laughed when I first saw a panned out shot and how close his neighbors were. Tell your buddy he's already got a sub waiting on him when he decides to pull the trigger on his channel. :-)
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My husband will love watching your videos. He was a cabinet maker for 30 plus years and very intrigued with live edge wood. Outdoors with the Morgans recommended watching your videos.
Awesome! Glad to have you guys check us out. :-) I'm going to put together a lot more slab videos soon.
Hi Chris. I’m looking forward to more your videos. Mike Morgan from Outdoors with the Morgans.
So freaking cool to watch
It's so much fun to run, too :-)
Hi 👋, Martin , I am new to your work shop, That looks like a serious bit of kit and I imagine quite expensive, I am thinking of building a CNC machine or purchasing one depending on price, I am retired living in France and I’m thinking of doing some reason casting in respect of tables or something along them lines I’ve been looking at a lot of CNC machines I will last three months and just come across yours,
Great territorial it’s a pity there’s no more information about it, Thank you for sharing, PHIL FROM THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOULIN FRANCE
Hi Phil, thanks for the kind words! You can find more info on the machine over at www.jointawood.com/
Hope this helps :-)
Serious question.
With the amount of money this costs why not just buy a cnc? Seems like it would be faster and would do it automatically not to mention the 1000 other things a cnc could do
Great questions! We decided on this as I didn't want to get into custom CNC work. We had an entry-level X-Carve and keeping that trammed to the table was such a pain.
This machine has a 12" helical head and matching built-in drum sander. I can switch modes and continue the job in less than 10 seconds. The finish the machine leaves saves us a whole day in sanding epoxy tables. With a CNC, you still need to be in the area just in case it malfunctions, so having it automated (in my specific case) didn't matter to me.
Essentially, we dry wood, flatten slabs, and build tables. I don't plan on doing anything else in my current space. This machine is perfect for us, but wouldn't be for a cabinet shop.
Definitely appreciate the question :-)
Looks like a great processor for slabs. With the Flaming box Alder epoxy slab, how long did milling take before you were good to remove it for final finishing. Did you go with just one grit and what was it.
Great video . Will be in touch with the manufacturer. Thanks.
This machine is great for slabs. It's so much fun to run, too. While we didn't keep a close eye on the time, I believe that slab was less than an hour total. That included flattening and an initial sanding of 120 grit on the machine.
As for the rest of grits and sanding, I'll have to let Jay answer that one. :-)
What do you think of this machine now?
Still love it! If I were to buy again, I would forego the jointer attachment (super useful but we don't need it like we thought we would) and go with a wider unit with the beefier cross brace and motorized vertical step motor.
The beefed up cross brace was just recently developed but I would definitely add that to my machine.
How much is it?
This model was around 20K, but there is updated pricing on their website. JointaWood.com/pricing
Nice machine! That should be a big seller. If you didn't see my saemill video, I visited my ex-customer, now good friend Joe who has a homemade wood boiler and homemade sawmill based on Matthew Cremona's design. I'm trying to get Joe to get his channel going.
I'll check out the video today! I like Cremona's design a lot and laughed when I first saw a panned out shot and how close his neighbors were.
Tell your buddy he's already got a sub waiting on him when he decides to pull the trigger on his channel. :-)
@@martin_kiln_and_slabworks no doubt, thank you.
Show us that wood
Ahhh I completely forgot to show a picture.