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04-08-2008, 11:48 AM
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This Space for rent
Name: Eric
City: Raleigh
State: NC
County: Wake
Join Date: Apr 2008
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First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
OK, well, I actually received this just before I became a member...like a couple days before. So not sure if I can post a gloat, but hey let's give it a shot.
Here
Is
My
Brand
New
Frikin LASER BEAM (anybody got a shark I can borrow?)
Still working on my first drawings for it, but here's some pics I took during setup. Man o man is this thing fun to play around with. Someday I'll get tired of watching it operate and actually get some work done while it's working!
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04-08-2008, 12:15 PM
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Moderator
Name: Ray
City: Raleigh
State: NC
County: Wake
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
Well... I think it should count as an official gloat. So, congrats. Looks like a very cool machine.
Ray
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I cut that board twice and it's STILL too short.
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04-08-2008, 12:21 PM
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This Space for rent
Name: Jeremy
City: Charlotte
State: NC
County: Mecklenburg
Join Date: Mar 2006
Age: 30
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
NICE SCORE! That is a heck of an addition! That will be a lot of fun!
Are you thinking about providing a service for people to lease time on it?
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04-08-2008, 12:22 PM
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This Space for rent
Name: Mark
City: Fuquay Varina
State: NC
County: Wake
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
Road trip to Eric's shop !!
-Mark
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04-08-2008, 12:23 PM
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This Space for rent
Name: Andy
City: Cary
State: NC
County: Wake
Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 49
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
Telling a guy with an actual laser that he sucks somehow seems like a really bad idea....
Very nice!
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04-08-2008, 12:41 PM
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This Space for rent
Name: Joe
City: Charlotte
State: NC
County: Mecklenburg
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 41
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
Nice addition to the shop Eric! Just yesterday I got some pieces laser engraved and really loved watching that thing burn the wood .gif "Drogar BigGrin(DBG)")
Very cool toy 
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Ciao,
Joe
http://www.joeswoodstuff.com
If you cannot laugh at yourself, you have not earned the right to laugh at others. -- I said that. 
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04-08-2008, 12:46 PM
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This Space for rent
Name: Trent Mason
City: Wrightsville Beach
State: NC
County: New Hanover
Join Date: Feb 2008
Age: 28
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
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 "flight of the sea birds, scattered like lost words......"
The ability to do woodworking no longer available in Bud Light. 
"We should never separate the lives we live
from the words we speak."
— Paul Wellstone
Trying to rent this space, one post at a time. 
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04-08-2008, 01:03 PM
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This Space for rent
Name: Glenn
City: Baskerville
State: VA
County: Mecklenburg
Join Date: Jan 2008
Age: 59
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
Cool machine!!! whatever the date of acquisiton it defintely qualifies for gloatage and the required you suck. The ex at one point in her career ran a laser marking machine to label stainless steel dental insturments. It always fascinated me to watch it inscribe REALLY tiny words on the dental handpieces. They had cooling problems on long runs which resulted in using supplemental jury rigged cooling (buckets of salted ice  ) Good luck with it and I hope the provided cooler works for you 
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04-08-2008, 08:00 PM
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This Space for rent
Name: Travis
City: Wake Forest
State: NC
County: Wake
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
Congrats!!!!
I Want One!!!
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Wife changed my perspective.  I need want some additional tools. I need want a
multi-spindle line borer - unlikely in 2008
pocket hole machine - unlikely in 2008
Festool sander and vacuum -told I don't need 2 not going to happen
Edge bander - unlikely this decade
oscillating edge sander - unlikely in 2008
floor model chisel or slot mortiser - unlikely in 2008
and a bigger shop - maybe in 2009
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04-08-2008, 08:26 PM
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Moderator
Advisory Panel
Name: Roger
City: Durham
State: NC
County: Durham
Join Date: Jul 2005
Age: 62
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
Dang! It's a Gweike with it's own chiller 
That's smoking!
Will it do tattoes? 
Congrats and enjoy,
Roger
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I ain't never had too much fun!
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04-08-2008, 08:41 PM
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Asst. Webmaster
Senior Moderator
Name: DaveO
City: Clayton
State: NC
County: Johnston
Join Date: Aug 2005
Age: 38
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
I am assuming that is a laser engraver  If so will you be my friend 
Please give us more insight into how it works, and what it and you are capable of doing. I have had a few pens and plaques laser engraved and have always wondered how it was done.
Dave 
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  Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
Honestly Honey, that will cost around $100 $150 $200, and I need a few more tools. 
Heard from a client..."If I had your tools and experience...I could do it myself"
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss
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04-08-2008, 09:06 PM
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Moderator
Advisory Panel
Name: Cathy Skipper
City: Forest City
State: NC
County: Rutherford
Join Date: Oct 2005
Age: 53
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
That rocks! Details please!
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Cathy Skipper
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04-08-2008, 10:07 PM
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This Space for rent
Name: Tommy
City: Roanoke Rapids
State: NC
County: Halifax
Join Date: Jul 2006
Age: 54
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
That most definitely qualifies as a gloat and a major one at that.
As for the laser, well I like living dangerously so you get a
YOU SUCK!
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04-08-2008, 10:08 PM
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This Space for rent
Name: Eric
City: Raleigh
State: NC
County: Wake
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
Details in a nutshell:
1. Wire a bunch of money to a sketchy Chinese guy you have never met.
2. Pray (even if you're an athiest like me).
3. Get really confused by the import process.
4. Drive up to Norfolk and hope it fits in the back of the pickup truck. Bribe forklift operators on each end of the trip.
5. Spend a day setting it up and looking for something broken (everything worked).
6. Spend another day figuring the software out.
7. Spend another day cutting circles and basic shapes, wasting tons of time watching it cut like a kid at the circus.
8. Get serious and try to make something. Realize you need a bigger water chiller and need to hook the air assist up to the shop compressor. Also realize you're about to go on vacation for two weeks so it will have to wait.
9. ????
10. ????
11. ????
12. ????
13. ????
14. ????
15. ????
16. Profit.
17. Invite your friends from ncwoodworker to come check it out and play with it  |
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04-08-2008, 11:41 PM
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This Space for rent
Name: Travis
City: Wake Forest
State: NC
County: Wake
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Re: First Gloat (if it qualifies) - Anybody got a shark?
Originally Posted by cubicdissection
Details in a nutshell:
1. Wire a bunch of money to a sketchy Chinese guy you have never met.
2. Pray (even if you're an athiest like me).
3. Get really confused by the import process.
4. Drive up to Norfolk and hope it fits in the back of the pickup truck. Bribe forklift operators on each end of the trip.
5. Spend a day setting it up and looking for something broken (everything worked).
6. Spend another day figuring the software out.
7. Spend another day cutting circles and basic shapes, wasting tons of time watching it cut like a kid at the circus.
8. Get serious and try to make something. Realize you need a bigger water chiller and need to hook the air assist up to the shop compressor. Also realize you're about to go on vacation for two weeks so it will have to wait.
9. ????
10. ????
11. ????
12. ????
13. ????
14. ????
15. ????
16. Profit.
17. Invite your friends from ncwoodworker to come check it out and play with it
For you, that may be correct. For me, there would be a few changes from number 9 on.
9. ????
10. ?????
11. Screw X up
12. Buy a bunch of parts that won't work trying to fix X
13. Think about it for a day or two
14. Say the heck with it and order a NEW X
15. Receive new X and realize old X isn't broken, I just reinstalled it wrong.
16. Get unit back running.
17. Realize that I broke Y. Repeat steps 11 through 16 but substitute Y for X
18. ????
19. ????
20. Maybe profit
21. Invite North Carolina Woodworker buddies over to play with it.
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Wife changed my perspective. I need want some additional tools. I need want a
multi-spindle line borer - unlikely in 2008
pocket hole machine - unlikely in 2008
Festool sander and vacuum -told I don't need 2 not going to happen
Edge bander - unlikely this decade
oscillating edge sander - unlikely in 2008
floor model chisel or slot mortiser - unlikely in 2008
and a bigger shop - maybe in 2009
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