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Rolling Stand

Over the last few years, I have become interested in CNC. In fact, I recently decided to add a medium sized machine to my shop. While I’m (impatiently) waiting for it to arrive, I thought it would be a good idea to start arranging the shop to accommodate it. That includes setting up somewhere for my computer to sit while I’m working on the CNC. This rolling computer stand was originally designed by our Technology Editor, Chris Fitch. Chris designed this to be cut out on a large shop-made CNC, however, I thought that this would be a great project to build entirely with the Shaper Origin.

“But Danielle, I want to build one of these, but I don’t have , or any kind of CNC.” Well, you could easily make this with a limited number of tools in your shop. I’ll point out alternatives as we go. Finally, before we start, I want to mention that even though this is designed as a rolling computer cart for a CNC, this would be a perfect computer cart for your shop, organization for a classroom, in a library, or even as

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