How do I clamp CNC material with little to no border?

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As @xchrisd mentioned, @jepho has several good posts about it.

Do I need to use a jig?

What is a the purpose of a jig and should I have one with my new Snapmaker machine. I intend to look briefly at what a jig does and then illustrate this short article with one that I made earlier and then discuss it in the light of the newly modified jig that I made. A jig is a device for ensuring the precision of a piece of work where one operation has to be repeated many times. This improves the accuracy of production numbers as they roll off the production line and a jig is usually removable…

Started making my flat clamp jig for cube carving

Possibly. I have no idea how to print 3D since I have not had my SM1 machine very long and I have not yet come to understand the 3D printing process. I have used the laser and the CNC aspect of the machine. The failure in the block etching was not understanding why the wood created an issue for me. My solution was not to waste the 1200 blocks of spruce but to find another way to process them. My flat clamp jig is that method. It can do with a few tweaks but it is now complete and working. I wi…

Modifying the SM1 Table and its Clamp System

I have now completed the bed and clamp modifications for my SM1. My original feeling was that it was sometimes quite awkward to hold items to the bed when trying to use the CNC milling functions for SM1. One limitation that I ran into very quickly was the 90mm square workpiece limitation. I assumed that this was partly due to the travel of the head and the length of the clamps that were supplied with SM1. The illustration which follows shows the clamps which were quite long and quite soft and th…

There are some other goods posts too. I’m considering the low rise clamps in

CNC plate: More holes?

So, it looks like I’ll be using the CNC head a lot, but the problem I’m running into is that there aren’t enough holes in enough places to securely clamp the wide variety of blanks I want to cut. Does anyone know of an alternative build plate that has far more holes for screwing the clamping screws to? At the moment, I don’t have the ability to drill and tap new holes myself, so there’s nothing I do custom right now…