First Cut With The Shopbot, Finally.

[shilala]

Yesterday I finally plugged in my shopbot that I got awhile ago. I learned a few commands, moved things around with my mouse (it hooks up to the laptop in my shop), and more or less stared at it with my mouth hanging open.
After running some "air cuts", it was time to surface the sacrificial top I put on her. That was a total headache. None of this would be so tough, but the support paperwork that came with this machine should have really been on a toilet paper roll. Were it not for Google, I would have been stuck from the word go.
I had to append a program, find a starting point, move my cutting tool, change positioning to absolute, then run the program. Each time I wanted to make adjustments to the previous program I had to start from scratch. Not very intuitive.
Ultimately I resurfaced the top 3 times, finally getting it deep enough and smooth enough to suit me.
Today I'll be getting my shop laptop loaded with a ton of software and I'll start familiarizing myself with the first program, attempting to make some little signs for the garden. That's a small enough project that shouldn't require a whole lot of brain power, or so I hope.

Here's the video of the maiden voyage. The first step towards making some wicked badass humidors.