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masterbrew wrote: I made the vid to show the ticker and a few other items I have just completed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MwNwQc1gjo

Randy

The A&M Texas is on top of the UT Texas...  I approve.. =)  Those look very nice btw.

Instead of having to play 'guess the error threshold' when finding a gear train, it would be nice to have a checkbox that finds the trains with the least amount of error.

Gear train is awesome.. thanks for this.. but clicking the various max error drop downs while searching can be tedious when you ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6-Z0A9v3Nw

Any plans to add a swiss lever escapement to GM and would that translate to a larger wooden clock or are the tolerances too tight for wood?

Dumb question time...

If you output your work file (stl?) of a gear or something does it always work with all cnc machines?  that's "g-code" right?  is it a universal language or do you have to change per machine? etc..

Okay wow.. this thing looks like it rocks.. http://www.shapeoko.com/

Great stuff guys!

Thank you all very much for your input.

I was leaning towards the laser first myself, but the more I look at it the cnc seems a more logical choice.

But lets go at it from a different direction.. Cost.

if I wanted a CNC machine that could cut a maximum 20" diameter gear (which is a silly large gear but you get my point, up to that large ...

I'm all for buying both! But that will be a tough one to get by "she who makes decisions".. ;D

I like doing a lot of the cut work I do on my Dewalt scrollsaw.. works great.. very relaxing too.. but when it comes to the really fine meticulous work, (escapement, pallets..etc) I think doing that on a ...

Great reply Steve thanks.

If I may ask, which Laser did you purchase?  Would something like this: http://fslaser.com/40wbasic  be over kill or is that exactly the kind (and price range) I'd belooking in?