{"id":2912,"date":"2014-08-09T16:06:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T22:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:36:22","slug":"are-you-a-digital-machinist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=2912","title":{"rendered":"Are You a Digital Machinist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/CNCube.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2914 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/CNCube-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"CNCube\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/CNCube-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/CNCube-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/CNCube.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I have been looking at my past but more recent machining activities. I have realized it is almost 100% CNC operations. I now have two Taig CNC mills in my shop. Two? Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>I have to sell the newest one or find a use for it. I have been doing wax carving so I could set up one machine for that and use the other for general metal machining. I am in no big hurry so I will just go with the flow on this.<\/p>\n<p>My shop will remain on the micro\/mini size of machining. I think I will be promoting a lot more of what can be done with CNC. I am doing that already so no change there. I don&#8217;t have a CNC lathe so maybe that is something for me to explore in more detail. It wouldn&#8217;t be too hard to CNC the Taig micro lathe. Perhaps a future project.<\/p>\n<p>I just re-energized my subscription to the hobbyist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmachinist.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Machinist magazine<\/a>. I need to come up to speed on what is the latest happenings in the hobbyist CNC. It&#8217;s only published 4X per year so it&#8217;s not that big a deal.<\/p>\n<p>I admit I have been off wandering around trying to find a purpose in my hobby activities. For me its been a kind of pre-retirement panic of what am I going to be doing for the rest of my life. I am sure I am not alone with these thoughts. It&#8217;s not that I have nothing to do, it&#8217;s certain that I will be making things.<\/p>\n<p>Like the special purpose magazine, Digital Machinist \u2013 I am thinking a special tab in my blog here or the old THMS website just for CNC activities. Maybe the mag will give me some ideas on subject matter and small sized projects.<\/p>\n<p>What I really would like to see is some comments. What do you make with small CNC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at my past but more recent machining activities. I have realized it is almost 100% CNC operations. I now have two Taig CNC mills in my shop. Two? Yeah. I have to sell the newest one or find a use for it. I have been doing wax carving so I could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[138,63,125],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cadcamcnc","tag-cnc","tag-machinist","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}