CNC carving a violin out of olive wood with the Shapeoko XXL

By Dennis Van Hoof, from Top o' Arts (topoarts.com).

This video shows the process of building a violin out of olive wood and spring green-colored epoxy resin using the Shapeoko XXL CNC router and other modern as well as traditional wood working techniques.

Software used:
- Meshmixer to create the 3D violin model
- Vectric VCarve to generate the tool paths
- UGS Platform to send the Gcode to the CNC

Materials used:
- Olive wood (Etsy store: "OliveWoodSupply" in Turkey)
- Ebony fingerboard, nut, and tail gut saddle blanks hardware blanks (StewMac)
- Strings and Supreme Tamarind Violin Fittings Set with Ebony Trim (Fiddlershop)
- 3/4 inch HDPE for the mold panels ("Small Parts" Amazon)
- Crystal Clear and Floral epoxy resin (from the Epoxy Resin Store)
- Pearl Ex Spring Green Mica powder
- 1 inch surfacing bit: Whiteside #6210
- 1/4 end mill: Amana Tool #46577-K
- 1/8 end mill: Amana Tool #46299
- 1/4 down-cut bit: Whiteside #RD2100
- Straight 1/4 ball nose bit: Amana Tool #46294
- Straight 1/8 ball nose bit: Amana Tool #46295
- Conical 1/16 ball nose bit: Amana Tool #46281

Referenced video of the Lock & Key technique for 4-sided CNC: "Lock & Key technique for 4-sided CNC - Carving a Greek column"
https://youtu.be/jfcQBFt0ZSA

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