[BC] Furniture (Tastes & styles)

[Mike McCarthy]

Not if the piece was cut with a CAM controlled cutter. New CAM controlled 
rotary cutters can actually cost less because it's not a manual effort. It 
also eliminates many errors and wasted raw product.The operator need not be 
focused on making perfect and consistent cuts as it will be done by the CAM 
cutter's many spindle bits.  Think router on steriods.

Once a pattern loaded into the system, precise duplicable pieces can be 
made at any moment by simply calling up the preset.  It's machining 
extended to woodworking. These machines can also cut precise openings and 
holes without any other labor needed just by spinning a new chuck into 
place.  Which makes fabricating a counter a real snap.  No more dealing 
with hole saws, routers, or sabre saws and the mess they make in the shop 
or studio .

It's likely the straight cuts cost more because many are manually done on a 
table saw to create the raw work product.

MM

At 12:37 AM 2/7/2009 -0500, WBRadiolists at aol.com wrote
>In a message dated 02/07/2009 12:29:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>glen.kippel at gmail.com writes:
>
> > Oh, OK, I suggested "thinking out of the box."  But if you're a fan of the
> >  hoseshoe layout that has been used for the past 80 years, I'll say no 
> more.
> >  Even if that approach costs twice as much.
>
>The old standards costs twice as much as a "swervy-curvy" style? I would
>expect that it costs far less to cut straight lines than to cut all kinds 
>of odd
>curves. ;)
>
>Willie...