An awesome gear shaped mug holder

This was my 4th project, and I've learned a lot so far!  It's still taking me a while to finish my projects, but I'm starting to learn how to plan ahead a little better and learning easier/quicker techniques.  I made this at the TechShop in Menlo Park (www.techshop.com).

I took both the Wood Shop SBU and CNC ShopBot SBU class to make this project.

I forgot to take a picture of the materials I used for this, so I will just make a list.  This was very inexpensive; all I had to purchase were the dowels and a 15" x 15" piece of plywood.

Materials:
1) wood glue
2) 15" x 15" piece of wood, mine was 3/4" think
3) screws (found in the TechShop bin wall)

Tools/equipment:
1) ShopBot
2) Drill press
3) Small hand saw

Step 1: Shopbot

I used the CNC ShopBot to cut out the gear shape.  This was very easy; all I had to do was create a file of a gear (which can be time consuming) in the exact size that i wanted, the ShopBot did most of the work for me.  I highly recommend taking this class!  

Comments

[TheLacedAngel_TSMP]

Silly me, I didn't even realize that you could tilt the base of the drill press! Now that'll make a few projects I have in mind easier :)

[controlledwrinkles]

If you're at TechShop, there is a gear in their logo which using any number of programs can be transposed into Cut3D. I have notice that their logo file is sequestered away on many of their computers.

[kretzlord]

I think i found the next addition to the steampunk mancave... Hopefully i have enough patience to do this with a jig saw lol.

[jessyratfink]

Love it! Turned out very well. :D