Man this is not too bad the engineering drawing was made and fixed to work in the machine... Lets hope lol. This drawling took me a few hours to figure out the software and how to wrap it like it needs to be for use in the indexer. The total time to figure out the software and make the 3D model was probably like 6 hours so I hope it will all pay off in the end with a new bat.
Dec. 8
Bat is looking good on the engineering software and Today I join the Wood. I literally used all the quick grips... ALL OF THEM. It was a good thing nobody else needed to use any. The glue was everywhere. To make a sold enough connection between the boards of wood I used a ton of glue. I glued two strips together four times, and then glued two of those four together to make two boards that are four strips tall. After that, I sent them to a machine to make sure they were square at 3.25 inches on all sides and shaved off the ends to even to the shortest board. Each came out to be perfectly 31 inches.
My hands are tired from squeezing the clamps so much. Yet still more clamping to do...
Dec 13.
Todays the day! Here is the shop bot that I will use to route my bat!!!! Hope it turns Out well!
Me and Finn worked super hard to figure out what bits to use, how to set up the drawling, and put the wood into the holder for the indexer. Everything was smooth, but it took too much time to figure out. Finn had to leave and so did I. My travel arrangements couldn't be moved so my final step i got to was putting the wood in the machine, but not able to route it because of lack of knowledge of how to calibrate the 4th dimension of the indexer to where it needed to be. So, sadly, I cant make the bat this semester, but next semester I will do my best to figure out how to do it and hopefully make a bat with Finn! We worked on it from 1 pm to 5 pm and figured out a lot, but need to get the calibration of the indexer to be able to do the bat.
Special thanks to Finn for coming in and stressing over this damned machine with me. I was fun and vexing at the same time.
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