Uwe Mattern, Author at CNC MACHINE

Excenter on Acorn DIY CNC lathe with C-Axis Polyform milling

Formular in the spreadsheet to generate excenters for polyform milling with parameters is from Roland. I added the roughing passes […]

My 500W chinese spindle is only good for engraving and other light cuts, so I made a bracket for a

Started to build a CNC lathe. Control is Centroid Acorn ballscrews on X and Z X 4Nm closed loop stepper,

Uwe Mattern / January 30, 2023

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Uwe Mattern / January 15, 2023

Some people are thinking CNC is complex and slow for single simple parts… One reason I build a DIY CNC

Uwe Mattern / January 4, 2023

Since my lathe is with 6-speed gearbox and some backlash, I could not use the spindle servo for C-Axis drive.

Uwe Mattern / December 27, 2022

Thats my attempt to speed up the process making hidden tang western style knife handles and more important produce less

Uwe Mattern / December 13, 2022

I build a spindle for live tooling with a JMC AC Servo. HTD Belt driven up to 6000 rpm and

Uwe Mattern / December 12, 2022

Easy way to mill squares ect. if you only have C axis. C and X together are interpolating Y axis,

Uwe Mattern / November 29, 2022

Today I made the base for a self centering vise for my Vertex HV6 to use as 4th axis. No