Custom Floor Vent (Register)
Custom floor vents (registers) can be made by CNCROi.com using any material to make them at any size, thickness, shape or design profile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuWgOXSftUw/
For this specific custom floor vent is actually a prototype for hopefully a bigger job, being a proof of concept, the goal, unlike production, is to make sure something is possible and to present the customer with pricing should it go forward.
The engineered wood flooring you see in these photos and video is just a sample to work from, the actual one will be different and far larger planks to work from to produce a whole wack of custom floor vents of different sizes and design specs at CNCROi.com.
As this is engineered wood, meaning it’s made of both solid wood, compressed wood AND wood that’s modified with specialized processes for added strength and durability, the chip size and characteristics of what’s excavated during the CNC routing process is a bit different as we go through all the different layers of the wood flooring.
This wood floor vent is also very dry, you can see this from the chips, as a result, this material cuts incredibly well and the consistency is fantastic.
Custom floor vents at CNCROi.com can be made out of anything, if you want yours to be made out of Black Walnut, we can make that, the video below shows a cutting board but it’s the same process for engineered wood as it would be for live edge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmBPTfKOdy0/
What I especially like about CNC routing engineered wood products is that the results are incredibly consistent in the final processing of the job, there is a lot give and take with doing a production run using real wood from grain patterns to wood densities but none of that really plays a role when it comes to this project.
The thickness and high density (strength) of this custom floor vent prototype lent it to be perfect for CNC routing, as our laser would have made a big burned mess out of this job, though it would have produced sharp inner corners, production at CNCROi.com would have also been dramatically slower.
The reason not much of the fine saw dust was being picked-up was because I was filming this and wanted to make sure that everything was going smoothly as it was being done, something that can’t be done with a big dust boot over the entire job.
The dust really doesn’t affect the CNC routing process in the slightest, but does play a role in wearing out bits faster due to heat build-up from milling the same wood over and over again along with little air flow.
CNCROi.com has extensive CNC routing experience, it’s how I began and only later did I get into the laser and other CNC machines world.
CNCROi.com has experience with producing custom cabinetry and cabinet fronts as well, so if you wanted your floor vents to match something already made or the other way around, we can help!
Thus far, this custom floor vent was made using a 1/4″ bit to carve out as much material as fast as possible, after a quick clean-up, the bit was changed to a 1/8″ in order to produce finer inner corners.
You can see in the image below how relatively sharp the inner corners are using a quarter inch bit, it looks great, and you’ll also notice the multiple layers of wood (real and engineered) that make-up this custom floor vent.
During actual production, there would be no need to clean-up the custom floor vent between bit changes because there would be a dust boot cleaning everything up as it was being produced at CNCROi.com.
The reason why CNCROi.com didn’t use a 1/8″ bit for the whole job was because it would not only be much slower at removing material (being half the diameter) but it would also be far more prone to breaking as it’s so paper thin.
You’ll notice far less dust was created during the carving out of the corners of the custom floor vent, with the 1/8″ bit, an almost unnoticeable amount of material was carved out.
Just to give you an idea of how smooth a job CNCROi.com can produce, here are some guitar templates we made using our CNC router, so if you wanted custom floor vents that were oval, or any shape you can imagine, that’s no problem!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUB_LRe9AA/
Can you notice the difference between a quarter and 1/8″ bit when it comes to the results in the inner corners? Barely… but the customer does and hence, they will make the final decision, not CNCROi.com.
As there is a concern by the customer that the engineered wood carved with a bunch of slots might not be strong enough to hold somebody’s weight if they step right on this register, CNCROi.com would also make a matching stainless steel backing to every vent then stick it all together for ultimate strength and safety.
It’s quite a contrast between CNC routing and CNC plasma cutting isn’t there… although both processes couldn’t be any more different, they follow the same production pattern, do inside parts first then cut it out.
Plasma cutting makes lots of smoke and dust from the molten metal, it’s a fun process to have total control over, something I really enjoy at CNCROi.com being able to do this for customers far and wide!
CNCROi.com has used it’s plasma cutter for a whole bunch of different applications, from (now) custom floor vents to memorial plates and BBQ grills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0463p1ovBw/
There is some solid UV rays flying out of this cutting process, as such, full body protection must be worn, no job at CNCROi.com is worth burning out your eyes or catching on fire over.
You can now see how similar the custom floor vent looks, the slots are just slightly bigger and outline might end-up being a little less depending on customer review.
A little clean-up is required but the results are fine for something that will never be seen, it’s going BEHIND the engineered custom floor vent.
You can now see the front wood and stainless steel backing of the custom floor vents, both made at CNCROi.com to customer prototyping specs.
Need custom floor vents? Contact CNCROi.com right now!
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