My name is Kyle,
I’m in Alberta, Canada. I recently purchased an Xcarve to expand my booming wood working business. I currently make a lot of furniture, counter tops, and custom art pieces. I have made many custom cutting boards and cribbage boards over the years by hand. I purchased the CNC to up my game in this department. I am finding that there is very limited knowledgeable people where i live that i could go talk to, to get some expertise so I’m hoping this community could help me out! I honestly have no knowledge of CNC milling except setting up the xcarve if that even counts lol! I am hoping that someone out there might have some pre-made files for custom/unique shaped cutting boards and or cribbage boards and that they might be willing to share with a newbie canadian!
Great info above but I’m a mac user and looking for an app that will help with the drilling operations. Has anyone used Fusion 360 for this? Any tips on that? Thanks.
@PhilJohnson Etsy can be good, and can drive you nuts. I stopped selling stuff on there for a bit because of how people undersell and screw everyone out of making money. Not that I care what other people price stuff for really, but it does get frustrating when someone says “this other etsy store has it for $5 and yours are $20, can you match their price?” No, because if I wanted to sell them for $5 thats what I’d advertise them for. I make some of the regular crafts you may find at Hobby Lobby or a ton of other places. I’ve had luck because while some stay at home soccer mom sells some monogram sign for $10 and mine are $30 or more, the quality of mine are far superior being CNC cut vs scroll saw cut.
And like @RobertCanning said, shipping can be a pain in the ■■■. I’m about to throw a bunch of stuff on my account and see how it sells though.
Yep. And your boards are definitely top notch from what I can see! I’ve still got to track down a mill around me that can get me the different hardwoods I want.