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I got laid off but found a job in another city. After living in Colorado Springs for nearly 18 years, I'm moving north to Castle Rock. As such, I won't be making any art for a while as I move thousands of pounds of workshop (and the rest of my stuff) to a new location.
While I was waiting...
So, while I was waiting to get my new CnC machine up and running due to one particularly problematic issue with the parallel port, I got bored and started making silver jewelry from the cabochons I had cut and polished from my years of collecting agates and other semi-gemmy stones. I stuck with it more than I usually do when I get into a hobby cycle, and so even though my machine is working, it's been sitting dormant since October. Hmmm. Totally could've used that money for a down payment on a new house. Ugh. Oh well, I'll get to using it one of these days.
Finally
After two months of trying to figure out why my expensive new machine wouldn't work, Rod (the tech at Syil) and I finally narrowed it down to a dirty signal from the parallel port of both the computers I tried to use it with. The fix came in the form of a network-based smooth stepper appliance. Now, I can try to figure out how to use Dolphin (CAD/CAM software) and see if I can make this damn thing work for a livin'.
A New Era!
After many years of dragging my feet, hemming and hawing, and being generally indecisive, I took a major financial plunge and ordered a CnC milling machine! For those unfamiliar with what this is, imagine a 3D printer that instead of building material up, actually carves it away from a bar of aluminum, steel, plastic or wood into the product desired. They can be used for engraving, mass production, etc. I want to use it to carve out some more intricate designs that I have, and to mass-produce the paintball gun part that I patented several years ago that I still haven't been able to get licensed, so I'll have to just make/sell them myself.
Couldn't wait...
So I sawed off the more annoying part of my cast, and started a new sculpture in the machine shop. Keeping my cast-hand fingers clean has been the hard part, and I'm surprisingly deft with my limited right hand mobility.
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