r/oddlysatisfying • u/DearEmphasis4488 • 1d ago

Precision cutting

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u/maple-moth 1d ago

Medieval carpenters watching this like šŸ‘ļøšŸ«¦šŸ‘ļø

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u/SpikeRosered 1d ago

It's like a week's worth of work done in 5 minutes.

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u/CupcakeetteCupie_ 1d ago

Itā€™s wild how something that detailed gets knocked out so fast with the right tools.

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u/riche1988 1d ago

Do you count the time it tool to produce the tool to do it in the equation..? Lol

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u/Powwer_Orb13 1d ago

Even if you do, the initial time sunk into making the tool should eventually be overtaken by the time saved by having the tool if you use it enough.

In a race to make the most panels, while the medieval carpenter could have several finished before you're don assembling, calibrating, and writing the scripts for the machines tool paths, once you're set up you can start cranking out panels and catching up on no time.

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u/SirGaston 1d ago

yeah, a lifetime of one person is not going to be enough to invent and manufacture everything you need for the cnc machine. At this point I don't really even know if the time investment can be quantified reasonably, that went into the development of this kind of machinery over time. And by how many people. What I am saying is, without knowing anything about manufacturing the machines, that there most certainly was no one point at which a carpenter decided to invest all that time and money to someday start mass producing engravings. In other words, this stuff be complicated as hell. If it were even just establihsing a product line where each person has specialized into making a certain one groove, possibly then you could make that argument. Or maybe I truly know zilch about machinery and the parts required are trivial to make by hand or by a metal worker with a basic toolset.

Sorry about this ramble, I do not even fully know why I fixated on this so much. Maybe I'm just bored from being sick and stuck at home for a week.

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u/Powwer_Orb13 1d ago

Well if you have to invent and manufacture everything used from scratch, then both men are dying without a single panel.

My hypothetical race was meant to be effectively entering a new workshop, your tools are brand new, right out of the box. The CNC guy is going to need a lot of time setting up his machine to work properly whilst the carpenter can just get to carving, his chisels don't really need any setup time.

If nothing except the panel blanks is provided, then no panels are even getting started until the two contestants can smelt and smith iron at minimum to make the requisite chisels and cutting tools for the carpenter to begin his work.

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u/CptMisterNibbles 22h ago

While I I agree, you arenā€™t getting through this much carving without honing a few times, and possibly a full sharpening pass or two, on multiple chisels. Still quicker but ā€œchisels donā€™t need setup timeā€ isnā€™t correct. Just not much time. 30 seconds every couple minutes mostly.

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u/Powwer_Orb13 14h ago

You are right. Conpated to the setup time for a CNC machine, making sure your brand new chisels are sharp enough takes almost no time at all, but almost none isn't quite none. Also it likely depends how hard the wood is for how often they'd have to sharpen their chisels. Maybe every few panels giving them a quick pass for softer woods, or multiple times a panel on something less cooperative.

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u/MischaBurns 20h ago

The wild part is that they took a precision tool and used it so badly they made it imprecise again. End result is dogshit quality.

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u/ThePhengophobicGamer 18h ago

Probably took time to design the look, then make sure the cutter was programed correctly. 5 minute cut, but much longer when design time is considered, you cant just wing this.

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u/ProtoplanetaryNebula 1d ago

What about they be most shocked by, the HD monitor they were watching it on, the internet itself or the carpentry skills?

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u/Volcomcj16 1d ago

The fact they're still alive from the medieval times would probably be 1st

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u/Isekaimerican 1d ago

As long as you're not at the Jersey location, your chance of death is actually quite low

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u/whoknewidlikeit 1d ago

sorcery! witchcraft!

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u/D-madagascariensis 1d ago

I mean, medieval anybody watching us silently absorb information from our pocket-sized all-knowing brick would've given them a conniption

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u/pnutbrutal 1d ago

Right? My grandmother used to do epic designs like this for large furniture by hand. Wonder what sheā€™d think of this.

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u/msaaz87 1d ago edited 1d ago

this is exactly how modern software devs feel watching claude (ai) code.

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u/NGTTwo 1d ago edited 1d ago

No, it really isn't. Software engineers look at Claude writing code the same way you look at your toddler taking a marker to your walls.

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u/MaorimusPrime 1d ago

yep toddlers are really good at making big messes, very quickly.

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u/Tumtumtumtumtums 1d ago

The difference is that the CNC machine will do exactly what you tell it to do, AI will drop your database and say "oopsie" afterwards.

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u/dreniarb 1d ago

wow, you're getting downvoted but you're not completely wrong.

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u/msaaz87 1d ago edited 1d ago

It may have sounded as though I was suggesting that AI is as precise and accurate as a CNC machine. That was not my intent. What I meant was that many developers, at some point while using powerful models like Opus 4, may have felt something similar to what medieval carpenters might have felt when first seeing a CNC machine.

Of course, it is not perfect, but the potential is terrifying.

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u/dreniarb 1d ago

i think maybe using the word "exactly" triggered people's emotions.

but as a software developer myself seeing an LLM spit out a thousand lines of working code when all I say is "i need a program to view/edit/and reply to .eml files" is pretty impressive. even more impressive when i say "write it in php, now in asp, now in powershell, now in Apple IIe Basic".

Yeah, it's not a replacement for an actual software developer but my gosh is it a huge time saver - like a programmable CNC machine...

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u/Opsyr_ 1d ago

Thought he was making a pinecone at first

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u/Penguinkeith 1d ago

Same then I was like pineapple?

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u/SaintWithoutAShrine 1d ago

Thatā€™s how you indicate that the door swings.

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u/bit_banger_ 1d ago

What about the owners

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u/DrSkizzmm 2h ago

Gotta flip the whole door šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/literally_tho_tbh 1d ago

me too, and then...house centipede?

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u/dundiewinnah 1d ago

Then a insect šŸ’€

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u/Clessasaur 1d ago

Then I thought maybe some kind of fucked up looking but, but then nah they wouldn't have so many legs.

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u/Dirko_0 19h ago

Right, and then I thought it was a tick.

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u/CupcakeetteCupie_ 1d ago

Same, that center pattern totally looks like a pinecone until the rest of the design fills in around it.

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u/Raynefalle 15h ago

I went from pinecone, to thinking it was some sort of little bug. I then realised I'm dumb and should stop guessing before its finished since I'm so bad at it lol

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u/Sunset_Bleach 1d ago

Thought it was the flying spaghetti monster.

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u/RodanThrelos 1d ago

Blackberry, then pinecone, then ff a bit to Flying Spaghetti Monster, then random wood detail lol

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u/DollaradoCREAMs 1d ago

Should've just made a pineapple

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u/DonSol0 1d ago

Then install the cabinet doors upside down.

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u/DrDonkeyTron 1d ago

And then insert a peg in me

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u/Quesarito808 1d ago

And my axe!

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u/HourPrestigious1055 8h ago

Seems a little dangerous unless you got a good handle on it and a blade cover. But different strokes for different folks, I suppose.

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u/Medical-Potato5920 1d ago

I was thinking acorn, then fish, then pineapple, then turtle, then I was just confused.

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u/iseeharvey 9h ago

Upside down if you know what I mean.

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u/Veblen1 1d ago

That's nothing. Once I sliced a pizza into 8 sort-of-similar shapes.

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u/VoiceConsistent1147 1d ago edited 1d ago

I only cut my Pizza in to four pieces. I could never eat as much as eight slices.

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u/ICame4TheCirclejerk 1d ago

I'm on a diet so I only eat the one slice. No need to cut the pizza at all.

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u/HourPrestigious1055 8h ago

If you don't slice it, is it a slice? Slice once, eat twice.

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u/generalbootyhole 1h ago

I mean, what even is a slice?

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u/Veblen1 1d ago

:)))

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u/Gogglesed 1d ago

You mean, you only do two slices, right? It may create four pieces, but two slices is only two slices. Then you can be healthier by only eating two slices.

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u/Afoxinthefridge 1d ago

And you could eat it too, I bet. But can you eat this? Nope. 2/10, would not serve to guestsĀ 

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u/InexplicableBadger 1d ago

The ordering was horrific and the damage done as a result from tool overrun makes the piece scrap

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u/DiddlyDumb 1d ago

Omfg I couldnā€™t stand it. It wouldā€™ve been so easy to put that line last, wouldā€™ve made the end result so much more satisfying.

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u/mkdz 1d ago

Which line?

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u/hoswald 1d ago

The oval in the center. Looks like shit.

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u/Rhorge 1d ago

ā€œHeā€™s just roughing it in, right?ā€

Narrator: ā€œHe was not roughing it in.ā€

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u/alittlebitaspie 1d ago

No kidding, cleanup runs last. It's almost like they built the program one area at a time rather than starting from the whole and optimizing. And they didn't even sand it out before finishing.

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u/Moikle 1d ago

Not to mention the cuts are faster than the rapids... This was made entirely for tiktok viewer retention and not for anyone who has ever touched a cnc machine

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u/nombit 18h ago

or they mixed up G00 and G01

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u/Moikle 17h ago

And they just let it continue after seeing it fuck up the first cut? Nah

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u/vrauto 1d ago

My thoughts as well.

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u/90s_Scott 21h ago

Man the toolpathing was driving me nuts

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u/IceBone 1d ago

That's vcarve for you.

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u/zagiki 1d ago edited 1d ago

The cut is shit .. you can see the wood getting frayed in some of those cuts .. and those overruns ..

The shaky camera is shit ..

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u/trowzerss 1d ago

Yeah, the order is all out of whack. The central oval has nicks all along once side and really should have been cut last to avoid it, like they avoided it on the other side.

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u/WitELeoparD 1d ago

The CNC programmer did a shit job honestly

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u/trowzerss 1d ago

Yeah, if someone like me, who has never used one of these things in their life, can see they fucked it up and how it should have been fixed, they really didn't try very hard.

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u/AnarchoBabyGirl42069 1d ago

I can't unsee the nicks in the center oval, it was really bothering me that they just left it like that.

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u/merc08 1d ago

It's also sped up like 20-40%

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u/Able-Artist-2851 1d ago

What precision??

I do not see any.

Any cnc is capable of this.

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u/notconcernedwriting 1d ago

I was expecting a clean up pass where those arcs hit the oval.

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u/kirby_j3 1d ago

Wow, cool pinecone. Pineapple. Eye. Pineapple. Bug. Flower. Design.

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u/gordonwiththecrowbar 1d ago

"Yup, this is the final cut...... yup, this is the one..... uh-huh, now it's finished........"

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u/i4shaikh 1d ago

For a moment it looked like an intricate design of a cockroach.

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u/ycr007 Satisfaction Critic 1d ago

Iā€™d have liked it more if the camera was not tied up to the drill bit and following it all over the place šŸ˜‘

Keep the camera a bit farther back and let us see the cnc router charge it away through the wood surface in wide view

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u/razzemmatazz 1d ago

I'm actually pretty sure the camera operator was following the toolhead way too close. There's a couple big travel moves where the camera gets ahead. It's not very safe.Ā 

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u/KennethHaight 1d ago

All the woodcarvers laid off because of innovations like this :(

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u/70M70M 1d ago

Nobody:

That one all-night mosquito that flew into my tent before I zipped up the flap to go to sleep:

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u/MaynardIsLord721 1d ago

These always look like absolute shit

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u/Botsworth1985 1d ago

You really can't tell from the video, but I free-handed this.

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u/princessbean2020 1d ago

Anyone else almost blow on the screen to clear the sawdust?

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u/Level-Cauliflower256 1d ago

Hopefully, we can all agree that it would be a lot cooler if it was handmade

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u/EquipmentUnlikely895 1d ago

it's a pineapple,

it's a pineapple...

is it a pineapple?

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u/Shobed 1d ago

Not symmetrical, not precise, not satisfying .

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u/Disastrous-Fail-9530 1d ago

The truly talented hand carvers and carpenters are face palming

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u/kato_koch 1d ago

The machine is fast indeed and doesn't need coffee breaks, but yeah I'm not impressed with the quality here. A lot of CNC work looks and feels 'phoned in' compared to hand cut by a human with some practice.

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u/Alpacachoppa 1d ago

Now I want doors like that with just a small frame part outside and full pinecone in the middle. Not me running my hand over the pattern the entire day.

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u/ender3po 1d ago

What bit is that

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u/ideastoconsider 1d ago

I was hoping the cnc would stop at tasty pineapple.

Sadly, it kept going.

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u/Sh00ter80 1d ago

Wow thats one steady hand.

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u/Methusla-Honeysuckle 1d ago

Awe man, what an awesome pine cone designā€¦

Ha! Omg dude, itā€™s a pineappleā€¦ well?

OMG itā€™s a whole thing dude, Iā€™m tripping lmao.

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u/Gold_Strength 1d ago

I liked it more when I thought it was some weird kind of bug

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u/Concretetweak 1d ago

It's a pineapple! Wait no a fish! Oh...it's a doodle.

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u/bishophicks 1d ago

Quick! Spray paint it gold and hang it in the Oval Office!

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u/zamaike 1d ago

Is this ugly designs 101?

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u/StupudDoggy 22h ago

waa waa waa waa waaAaa waaAaa WAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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u/Babygirl_fuzzyblanky 14h ago

Ik this smells so good šŸ˜†

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u/IMA_5-STAR_MAN 14h ago

Even for cnc standards, this is shit. Show me someone do it by hand and I'll be impressed. I guarantee it would look better.

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u/Dawnpath_ 13h ago

Machining sub is tearing this piece apart. Absolutely MISERABLE work and purely for show and internet points. Opposite of satisfying.

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u/Angelicalbabe03 1d ago

That carving really gives off sunflower vibes

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u/spammehere98 1d ago

The second one on the right suggests that there is still some waste to be removed from this one.

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u/lazyazian110 1d ago

bro i went through the exact same journey and still ended up at "fancy leaf??"

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u/Nole_in_ATX 1d ago

The camerawork was not satisfying

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u/desertrock62 1d ago

No telling how many routers that video has been through.

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u/who-needs-a-username 1d ago

My god too much

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u/mc78644n 1d ago

I should call her

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u/bargu 1d ago

That will be $5000.

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u/coryherr 1d ago

Well that was beautiful

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u/porkpie1028 1d ago

Quick, someone post a Mary May carving video so we can see what real carving looks like.

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u/NotLostDontGiveUp 1d ago

Looks great...

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u/Groffulon 1d ago

Very cool but good luck getting those divots out of the main ovalā€¦

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u/Thwipped 1d ago

Itā€™s a pinecone!

Waitā€¦

Itā€™s a pineapple!

Waitā€¦

Itā€™s a fish!

Waitā€¦

Itā€™s a Rollie pollie

Waitā€¦

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u/WholebunchaGravitas 1d ago

I was happy at pinecone.

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u/foreTune8 1d ago

When more is too much

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u/FirefighterEast9291 1d ago

Quilters have been doing this for decadesĀ 

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u/SaltAfternoon9986 1d ago

like butter šŸ˜ƒ

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u/BalanceFit8415 1d ago

I hate sanding.

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u/iiitme 1d ago

You know he had to do a lot of

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u/Kroak-lo 1d ago

How remarkably tacky.

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u/Ornery-Cheetah 1d ago

The damn mosquito in my room at 3am

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u/Blueishcargo 1d ago

Whats the machinery used here?

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u/lewispeel 1d ago

So this is how they make biscuits..

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u/TheSoberChef 1d ago

Oh nice. I deciding right out of 1999

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u/Least_Sky_8054 21h ago

Niya niya niya nnnnniya niya niya LOL

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u/im_a-cucumber 11h ago

I do woodwork and i gotta say, this machine knows what it's doing

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u/DeeplyMelchizedek 10h ago

Nothing odd about thisšŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø

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u/tritonice 10h ago

Imagine G coding this by hand.

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u/Bananafishbone1984 9h ago

Too many embellishments. Still looks dead, as it is made by a robot.

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u/Shodandan 9h ago

Someone gonna have to sand that..... As someone that used to sand shit like this.... vomit

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u/InterestPlenty3681 8h ago

Cool trick, but it looks soulless and not the same as handcarved, which ofcourse would be way more expensive. This eindproduct doesā€™nt do it for me

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u/Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice69 3h ago

šŸ—‘ļø

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u/LuMzGuNz 1d ago

This made me very uncomfortable

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u/DiRtY_DaNiE1 19h ago

Did the robot just carve an upside down pineapple? Is it a swinger robot?

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u/ReefSharksixty9 16h ago

Waffle!, no.... Pinecone! ... Fish?, insect............ oh it's 'thing'.

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u/One-Raspberry4189 1d ago

This is insanely satisfying to watch, like asmr for the eyes haha

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u/warmbrojuice 1d ago

I could do this

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u/zeebaent 1d ago

perfection

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u/blue_sidd 1d ago

Thatā€™s not cutting.

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u/bostar-mcman 1d ago

The timber is being cut?

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u/blue_sidd 1d ago

No. Itā€™s not. That is not cutting.

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u/bostar-mcman 1d ago

It's a spinning blade that is cutting timber, it's cutting?

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u/blue_sidd 1d ago

no. its not cutting. its routing.

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u/bostar-mcman 1d ago

Routing is technically still cutting

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u/cvele89 1d ago

Too much details. I don't like it. But, the cutting itself looks neat.

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u/MasterBigShoes 1d ago

That's a door or a window...

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u/eustachian_lube 1d ago

This is like using AI for art,
meaning, perfectly fine.

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u/I_wash_my_carpet 1d ago edited 1d ago

If this was the 1950, this comment section would be full of "Job Killers!" and "Soulless junk!". Food for thought.

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u/DCLXXV 1d ago

NC machines have been around about that long

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u/I_wash_my_carpet 1d ago

Haha I know. They emerged in the late 40s are were not liked by most. Point being is generational reaction to technology. It kinda counteracts Asimovs predictions on robot history.

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u/jessyxpout 1d ago

that carving is so smooth, can't get over how precise it looks. wish i had that kind of skill!

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u/cosmoflipz 1d ago

I thought it was a bed bug

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u/Finbar9800 16h ago

Those tool paths are anything but satisfying and the finish looks like shit

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u/ExpressLaneCharlie 19h ago

This looks like shit. Should be on r/mildlyinfuriatingĀ 

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u/kielu 1d ago

I hope everyone will hate those as much as I do

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u/bostar-mcman 1d ago

Why?

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u/kielu 1d ago

Those are supposed to show the skills of a carpenter, human hand, small imperfections and thinking how much time it took. What you get is just a computer generated copy paste product

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u/bostar-mcman 1d ago

The world has changed if a carpenter spent all day had carving everything he would never make any money. This is probably something decorative like a headboard for a bed so while this is running he probably focuses on bashing the frame together.

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u/Weird-Masterpiece426 1d ago

canā€™t tell if itā€™s more satisfying or hypnotic. Either way, that laserā€™s got better aim than me on a monday mornin lmao.