That is pretty cool!  You going to put a ring of LED lights behind it?  They had those in 1890, didn't they?

How long did it take your CNC to carve the gear?

Here is the window in the door.
The gear will have the same patina when done.
Crusty and rusty.

So it's come to this: us old car restorers are so used to having rust around that we feel compelled to create it where there is none.

When Ya get the "patina" on it all Ya got to do then is shoot some mat finish clear on it. Then Ya can flip it to them Monkeywrench Garrage dudes fer The Big Buck$

Tubo

Modern Masters makes the paint I use.

its a 60x144 Mechmate I built myself.

Takes a corner of the shop all by itself...

I use vacuum holddown for almost everything I cut. That is a dedicated dust collector you see behind the machine.

Lance wrote:

I have questions! What is your trade?I own a remodeling company, and have a 4000 square foot shop dedicated to building cabinets, bars and built ins. (and the occasional Mustang, when time permits...) Do you do all the 3D modeling yourself? Yes Can you use any software as long as it saves in some standardized format? Kinda. I can import bitmaps, jpegs, DXFs , and convert them to G-code for the machine.Limitations of the machine... Materials? Anything but metal or stone. I could cut aluminum with coolant, but it would require too much cleaning to switch back to wood.  Size of blanks? How large? How small? How accurate?  The bed size is 60"x144"x8" depth of cut. I routinely cut to 3 decimal places. The machine can run a 1/16" ballnose bit with as little as 5% stepover, which is .003125 per pass. Thats theoretical, because even with belt drive reduction, its not THAT accurate. Lets just say wood expands and contracts more than my accuracy.That has to be one of the coolest toys ever! Not sure I could ever leave the shop if I had access to one. Thanks for sharing, and you realize we all want to see the final project!

Lance

 
I responded inside your quoted text in red. I went to pick up the paint today only to be told they sold it to someone else over the weekend. REordered.....2 weeks.
Here is a link to my build journal showing the entire start to finish of my machine, which carries serial #101 of documented completed machines.....

http://mechmate.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3124

The rust paint is backordered for a couple weeks, so I sprayed some leftover red-oxide primer on it and "bolted" it to the wall.
Mainly because its safest there, but we are having a little get together this weekend and I'm curious to get reactions to it.
I'll rust finish it as soon as the material gets delivered.

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That is a really cool control console you have there. I haven't seen anything that nice on the Mech Mate forum. Have you posted pictures there?