2017 CNC Symposium
Shopbot Users Group Presentations
Brett Dickinson has been a long time educator who has extensive experience utilizing the cnc in the classroom. He will do a presentation on using the Shopbot in the classroom.
Steve Glassel of SG MFG / Treasures form Trees is a long time woodworker with extensive cnc experience. His first presentation will be on a chair which he designed to be cut entirely on a cnc and includes locking joints. His second presentation will cover designing a scooped chair seat in V Carve Pro using the molding toopath.
David Haas is a talented and prolific designer and cnc operator who does some very interesting 3d projects. He will be presenting some of his latest works.
Jad Jadeja a Programming and Robotics teacher with the DrippingSprings ISD will do a presentation with several students on using theindexer to do four sided machining.
Santiago Laverde has extensive cnc and design experience and will be presenting some recent projects with an emphasis on some of the jigs he
David Lemke is a boat builder from Victoria, TX who will do a presentation of a large boat project with an emphasis on constructing projects much larger than the capacity of the cnc machine by utilizing the inherent accuracy of the machine.
Will Leonard is the head of the sets department at the Alley Theater in Houston and will be presenting some new and creative projects. Being sets and props his work tends to be a bit different, very creative, innovative, and interesting.
Wayne Locke is a long time furniture designer and builder. He will do a presentation on the setting up, designing for and using the Indexer. He will also do a companion presentation to Steve Glassel’s Scooped Seat designing but using Aspire.
Ken Picou is a long time woodworker who has gained a fair amount of renown in the Luthier community for some of the specialized tools hemanufactures and sales. He will present and explain one of these tools, a small router table, he manufactures with a Shopbot.
Bill Young with Shopbot will do a presentation on some of his recent and innovative projects. Bill is a long time Shopbotter who really pushes the boundaries.
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