I completed the prototype of the UHMW shooting board over the weekend. It is made mostly of MDF (with a hardwood fence and bench hook) except for the UHMW runner. Additionally, I experimented with using rare-earth magnets to allow the miter attachment to be easily attached and removed to change the shooting board from 90 to 45 degree operation.
The UHMW runner seems to be a success and works great…the rare-earth magnets are too weak to hold the miter block tightly enough in place, so I supplemented them with hardwood dowel pegs in the miter block and holes in the base. It now holds tightly enough. So, one successful experiment out of two isn’t too bad. This week I will experiment with the operation of the board a bit and report back to this blog. Photos to follow.
I also completed the two desk tops this weekend by cutting the four slots for the ebony splines into the edges of the tops with a slot-cutting router bit. The tops are now "complete" and will be stored until the rest of the desks are done. The ebony trim will be added to the tops after they are mounted on their bases.
I then made a jig to allow me to route out the inlet details on the legs of the desks and routed one leg as a prototype. The jig works well. I now need to cut 16 legs from the rough mahogany and then route them with the detail on all four sides each.
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Matthew Sanfilippo is currently Executive Director of PSII (Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator) and the CenSCIR (Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure), Associate Director of ICES (Institute for Complex Engineered Systems), and Associate Director of PITA (Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Prior to CMU, Matthew was Director of Applied Technology for Michael Baker Corporation, a large engineering and energy services firm. Matt managed a technology consulting division for Baker including Geographic Information System (GIS), software and web development, multimedia, virtual reality (VR), visualization, Global Positioning System (GPS), mapping and surveying services.
Before joining Baker, Matt was an Innovation Director for Redleaf Group, a Venture Capital/Operating Company focused on Information Security, Supply Chain, Network and Mobility Solutions. While at Redleaf, Matt managed technical due diligence for seed-stage investments and coordinated relationships between Redleaf and their partner companies after investment.
Prior to Redleaf, Matt was CIO of GZA GeoEnvironmental Technologies, a Boston-based engineering firm, and operations manager for their Internet start-up division that focused on web-technologies for health and safety and manufacturing metrics.
Matt is current board member and past Chairman of the Board for the Botanic Garden of Western Pennsylvania, a board member of the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation (PHLF), and a former member of the Information Sciences and Technology Advisory Board for the Pennsylvania State University Beaver. Matt is also a former Vice President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Association of Internet Professionals and former Vice President of the Board of Trustees for Baker Combined Charity of Pennsylvania.
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