CNC Shark Forum

I wanted to say that the folks at NWA are really on the ball! I emailed them and had a response within 20 minutes. He agreed with me that the controller was bad. I've got a new one on the way..

I need my Shark back!!

Hi 4D

There is absolutely nothing happening on the Z axis. Not a sound. The motor operates perfectly when I plug it into another channel.

I've got an email into nextwave. They have already responded.. Quick

Morning all I popped into the shop this morning to cut some shell for a fingerboard inlay. I fired up my shark, went to jog the router out of the way and had no Z control. X & Y are fine. I swapped channels to see if the stepper motor was falty. It's fine. The control software says the Z axis is mov...

Pretty sure playing with your nodes is still illegal in some states..

Thanks..

I liked the prospect of not having to bind the fretboard. I'm dying to try a fan-fret.. 27" scale length on the low E and 25.4 on the high.

Do you have the precise bits collet upgrade? If you don't you will. The stock collet will snap your $25, .023 bit in short order.

Cheers, Michael

Hi Tom.. My fingerboards are done on my shark. I do all of my drawing on my Mac and then export as a DXF file (much faster than trying to slog through drawing with Vcarve). In my "highdesign" drawing settings I go for decimal inches using .0000 resolution. I use the precise bits .023 freting bit. Th...

Those are both cool!

Nice job!! Good looking..

You should drop the apostrophe next time.. Craig's (what)...

Cheers, M

Hello.. First of all I think the Shark is a great machine for the money! It's very easy to use, and Vcarve is a perfect companion software package. I do find drawing with Vcarve to be clumsy, so I do all of my drawings on my Mac and export as a DXF to Vcarve. It really saves me a ton of time. You co...

Roger, The Precise Bits website has all of the rate parameters for each bit they sell. As you can see from the picture, the fingerboard is radiused. I set my Z0 to the top of the crown plus .004 (thickness of a piece of paper) and set my final depth to .085". The Max DOC for the fret cutter is .09"....