[BrownDesert]

Well, I have been lurking around here (cnczone) for a few years, and finally got around to signing up and posting something! I actually already have my CNC mill project “done”, but I thought I'd go ahead and upload a bunch of pictures that I took along the way, and write up how I did things, and maybe help out someone on their build. I've been around CNC mills and Lathes a good bit, since CNC programming and operation is what both of my brothers do for a living. I have always been amazed by what you can do with a CNC mill, and I would always scrutinize just how those machines were put together, and say to myself “I could build one of those...” and I was right. Nice. Of course it has helped enormously that I got all kinds of great ideas, solutions, and inspiration here on the 'zone. Oh, and LinuxCNC/EMC2... that software rocks! Many thanks to all the hard working LinuxCNC developers. I'm not quite sure where to start, but I guess I have to post the un-crating pictures first...


...and a “what it looks like now” teaser picture, too.

Oh, and any advice on how to effectively post pictures here would be very helpful... I want some way to have a caption/description on each picture... I suppose clickable thumbnails embedded in the text would be best. A picture is only worth a thousand words when you have a description to know what you are looking at! I've got a lot of pictures to post (229, and counting), and I'd like to make them easy to view in this thread.
-Austin