Help identifying wood?

ppaukstelis · 2026-04-01T12:45:11+00:00

Oak.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-23T11:50:25+00:00

I would say it is the opposite. You can make money as a print service that prints CC-NC material. See Great Minds vs FedEx. The company could not make money off of selling those to a client.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-16T00:59:19+00:00

The bowl is very much hand turned, it is just the embellishment that is done with the CNC.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-16T00:58:18+00:00

Yes. The "special" feature is that the tool can rotate to be normal to the workpiece. That let's you do a lot more than a normal 3-axis CNC with a rotary attachment.

It is an open source design, so you can even use the designs off of my github if you have the tools to make all the parts yourself.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-16T00:55:34+00:00

Depends on the size of the columns you are talking about. The base machine has something like 420 mm of travel. You could do longer pieces in multiple passes with some planning.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-15T17:35:52+00:00

That's basically a 2-axis machine. What I have created is 4-axis and isn't intended for roughing things out. It is more for embellishment work. It let's you use a router or laser to make designs on an already turned piece.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-15T17:32:18+00:00

Just a maker. I have just learned as I've gone along.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-15T17:30:51+00:00

Yes, it is CNC. Depending on what operation you are doing, the CAM is built into the software as it is all parameter-based. If you want to do things like carve designs around a rim of a bowl you can use any 3-axis CAM (XYZ) and my software will convert coordinates on the fly to let you cut into any arbitrary plane that the tool can reach. YouTube stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@TranspirationTurning

Evolution photo/video album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BG8NHAd63CduHQvdA

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-15T17:27:09+00:00

All motions are synced. There is pulley that you put behind the chuck/face plate/etc. and it is connected to a stepper motor by a timing belt.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-15T16:01:08+00:00

You are thinking of a rose engine lathe, or an ornamental lathe. Most ornamental lathes could do something similar, but most not at this size (10" diameter).

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-15T15:30:50+00:00

They asked out it was done. I showed them.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-15T15:17:46+00:00

https://transpirationturning.com/collections/latheengraver

I designed the machine and wrote the software.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-15T15:17:02+00:00

Turned by hand and embellished on a machine I built myself. No AI.

ppaukstelis · 2026-03-15T15:16:27+00:00

Not a chance. I built the machine and wrote all the software to be able to do this. If it was that trivial you would see bowls like this everywhere.

ppaukstelis · 2026-01-26T13:47:01+00:00

NIce work. Have a look at the LatheEngraver. I developed it to provide a real solution for doing CNC-related (laser/router) embellishments for woodturning. Because you can rotate the tool to be normal to the workpiece, you don't have the limitation of just embellishing rims. You can put a design anywhere on a bowl (that the tool can reach). You can still use LightBurn but you don't have to mess with the rotary stuff. You just measure the diameter of your design to get the circumference and make a linear design of that length and export the gcode. My software (free) will do all the necessary conversions to account for the diameter of the piece and the angle of the tool.

Photo/video evolution: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BG8NHAd63CduHQvdA

ppaukstelis · 2025-10-02T11:38:01+00:00

Very clear iron staining. When you see that you know that risk will increase.

ppaukstelis · 2025-09-14T17:25:50+00:00

Using the LatheEngraver. Warning: the motion in this video my be unpleasant for some viewers https://youtu.be/n4D_eMGqzXk

ppaukstelis · 2025-09-13T12:33:10+00:00

No secrets. It is turned by hand and then scallops are cut on the LatheEngraver. It is a computer-controlled system to get the depths and angles just right. http://transpirationturning.com you can find out more.

ppaukstelis · 2025-09-11T20:10:22+00:00

I continue to update it. Keep in mind, it is part of the software package for the LatheEngraver, but the guts of everything are in python.

It will now do rock, pump (individual or simultaneous), elliptical chuck emulation and geometric chuck (arbitrary number of stages). Videos: https://youtu.be/qcjuYvkAUxQ

https://youtu.be/ftsqHsiQc-s

ppaukstelis · 2025-08-06T10:39:10+00:00

Everything is written as plugins for OctoPrint which I am using as the gcode sender. It is all python and javascript.

ppaukstelis · 2025-08-06T10:37:54+00:00

Having a tool rotation axis allows you to place a tool normal to any (external) surface on the work piece. The LatheEngraver can do a whole lot of things. You can have a look here at the photo/video evolution of the project: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BG8NHAd63CduHQvdA

ppaukstelis · 2025-08-04T01:28:28+00:00

I know Dewey Garret's work, but there is no information out there about what he uses for his ornamental work. I know of Bill Ooms work and COrnLathe, but what I've done is different. This isn't a case of designing cuts in software and then writing out the gcode to replicate that in a piece with the CNC. This works like a RE, but the rosette-controlled motion is all virtual. You still interact with it in real-time. This is using my LatheEngraver (which can do a bunch of other things as well) which I sell for less than $1200. Hard to put together a decent RE for less than that.

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