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Digital Updates

The latest advents to woodworking tools are digital and, as with power tools before them, the rate of change is fast. It’s easy to fall behind. To stay current and benefit from improvements it’s useful to get a periodic update. That’s what the last Digital Tools SIG was all about. 

Our shop has many digital tools. These include Shapeoko CNCs, lasers, a Shaper Origin, a Bambu Lab 3D printer, and a Silhouette vinyl cutter. Associated the Origin are accessories such as Plate, Trace, and Workstation. All of these tools are driven by software including Lightburn, VCarve Pro, Carbide Create, Bambu Studio, Shaper Studio, Silhouette Studio and with online resources like MakerWorld. Key updates were touched upon. 

Bambu Lab’s MakerWorld
A site with thousands of free 3D printable designs. Setting it apart is how simple it is do download and print complicated multicolor, intricate designs to our X1 printer. 

Shaper Trace Update
Vector (line) designs are needed to guide most digital tools. This simple-to-use system allows drawings to be converted into SVG format vector files for use with all our tools.

Lightburn Software Update
Used to control our lasers and increasingly to design as well.
The upcoming release adds the ability to correct for distortion on tapered cylinders, automatic guide lines, corner rounding and much more.  

Origin’s Kirby Cove Update
This hand-controlled CNC mill has built-in design software. Kirby Cove adds a variety of new design shapes to its arsenal including slots and polygons in addition to connected calipers.

Special Little Utilities:

  • PBNify – posterize images for easy tracing to get vectors
  • SpiralBetty – create single-line images for cutting/burning
  • WedgeTenon – mechanical joinery using just a laser cutter
  • Candy Machine – from the Hub and using only the Origin

Every last Saturday of the month we meet at 10:00AM at the Shop.
These SIG events are free and open to the public to attend. 
If you’re interested then plan to join us next time.

Discuss these developments in our Woodworker Discussion forums.

San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association
5360 Eastgate Mall, Suite E
San Diego, CA 92121
(858) 230-7593
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Craftsman Referral Terms

BACKGROUND
The San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association (SDFWA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the education, promotion, and execution of the principles of fine woodworking.
The SDFWA frequently receives requests from people seeking the service of a woodworker. Therefore, although custom woodworking for hire is not the purpose of our organization, we offer this referral service to the public so that they might connect with a woodworker.

SCOPE
SDFWA does not screen or warrant the skills or work of any craftsman. The public should use their own discretion and due diligence before hiring any craftsman, from any source, including this one.
The sole role of SDFWA in this referral service is limited to providing our member woodworkers with your completed form. It is up to each craftsman to initiate a contact with the requester.

PROCEDURE
After a requester submits a project, the form will be emailed to our list of participating craftsmen. If a craftsman is interested in the project, they will contact the client directly, and a two-way conversation can begin.

As the craftsmen themselves choose which projects to respond to, this means that it is probable that some project requests will receive no response. If you do not receive a response in a reasonable time, please submit your request again, using the provided referral form.
Note that contacting SDFWA directly will not achieve the desired results.

DISCLAIMER
By agreeing to these Terms, and by continuing to submit this Referral Form, and by utilizing one or more of the services of any of these craftsmen, you are agreeing to contract exclusively with that individual craftsman and to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the SDFWA Organization, its officers, officials, employees and volunteers from any and all claims, injuries, damages, losses or suits including attorney fees, arising out of or in connection with the performance of this agreement, and any and all failures, damages, or otherwise negative outcomes caused directly or indirectly by the craftsmen you employ to do any project initiated by this Form. This does not preclude you from pursuing legal remedies from the individual craftsman that you employ. But any remedy you pursue is restricted to that individual craftsman, and does not include the SDFWA organization or any of its volunteer members.

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