Testimonial: Stuart’s Medieval Castle Walls (South Africa)

I absolutely love it when people send me pictures of my designs, especially when it’s for their own kids and grand-kids to play with. In this case, it’s one of my very first designs that I no longer offer on CNCKing.com – I replaced it with a far more efficient model – Medieval Castle Walls which is only available in my very first woodworking volume. You can read a bit about it here: http://cncking.com/shop-essentials/books/cnc-design-anthology.html

What’s funny is that back then, this project was HUGE for me, I had lots of simple design but wanted something mind blowing… by today’s standards, it’s nothing amazing to me but back then, wow… so much work!

Hi Jon,
I am really amazed at your service levels, I copied a mail of your Medieval Castle, misplaced the drawings, asked for help and you not only offered to help, but after asking for a photograph of what I had done you sent me the detailed drawings.

I completed the castle before Christmas and gave it to my grandson Luke, who loves it. My only mistake was to leave out the dowels at the entrance.  Which I will now rectify.

I attach a photo of my effort and would request I be included on your mailing list for future publications.

Again my sincere thanks,
Stuart

I designed this wooden Medieval Castle Walls to be laser cut but looking at the picture, you’ll notice no burn marks, that’s because he used a scroll saw! Interestingly, you can get almost the same level of precision (though not repeatability) with a scroll saw as with a CNC router or laser but you need a damn big one for larger pieces! He did a fantastic job… Stuart, I hope you get a CNC machine as it will greatly speed-up your production times!

It’s incredible how much I’ve learned since those early days! This was replaced with Medieval Castle Walls B… a far bigger and nicer model with a more user-friendly build!