What features would you like to see in 2024?

[Aiph5u (Aiph5u (not affiliated with Onefinity))]

Hey M,

@MKrupp

I appreciate all the new bigger machines that Onefinity has been offering, but I’d like to see a mid-sized one at 2’ x 4’ for those not needing or wanting a bigger machine, but one that is very rigid, compact and focused. One that could take a spindle and eventually an ATC.

A machine with a workarea of 120 × 60 cm workarea – but there is already Journeyman PRO and Elite Journeyman, both with 120 × 80 cm workarea, you know that? I bought the Journeyman because the top of a double bass or of a bass viola da gamba fits, or a set of side blanks and and back blanks for a double bass or a guitar, on a vacuum table to reduce their thickness. That are the biggest parts a luthier usually makes.

Or do you mean 60 × 120 cm, with a the long dimension (120 cm) on Y and the short dimension (60 cm) on X? EDIT: See also below.

@MKrupp

Another thing I would like to see is a re-vamping of the website allowing a person to purchase the perfect machine by having the ability to select the length and width they want for machining area from drop-down lists. So, a drop-down for the x-axis length, and another for the tube diameter. The same thing for the y-axis.

+1!

That would be a good way to offer the machine someone really needs. Some people made themselves a machinist-woodworker hybrid with 80 × 40 cm by combining parts of the two machines.

@MKrupp

For me, 24" in the X, 48" in the Y, with 50mm tubes all around

Ah okay, you really mean the long dimension on the Y axis, and the short on X. That is something that would allow MUCH better for a rotary axis that can make a guitar or bass neck! I requested this already here:

@Aiph5u

But one question worries me:

Will there be 50 mm rails on Y-Axes soon too?

Because what I’d like to prefer, is not having a 48″ × 32″ like “Journeyman”, but a 32″ × 48″ – I mean one with 50 mm rails of 48″ on the Y-Axes, instead of the X-Axis.

Why? That would allow easier mount of a 4th Rotary Axis: It would not collide with the Y-Axes rails since the Rotary Axis would be parallel to those then. That is a real problem with what I plan to do. When using new “Journeyman”, it limits the 4th Rotary Axis to either being shorter than the 48″ Length (becauser of 4th Axis stepper, gear box, 3 Jaw Chuck etc. to fit between the Y-Rails) or, the other way, to be parallel to the Y-Axes, and so to have only 32″ Cutting Area Length.

You should also post in the “Feature Requests” category. The manufacturer stated they look into this category regularly .

Regarding the Elite Journeyman and Pro Journeyman currently available, which share the same footprint and hardware, with the long dimension on X and the short on Y axis, I believe 35 mm Y rails are strong enough if you think of the fact that on Y axis, you have two rails as this is a gantry-type machine. I think they correspond well with the 50 mm of X rail (which provides the 120 cm workwidth). I have the Journeyman X-50 and I think 50 mm tubes on the Y rails (which have 80 cm worklength) would make the machine unnecessary heavy.

But I would have preferred it with Y on long dimension and X on short, like you!

These were just my few €0.01’s

So +1 with me for a long Y-50 axis, and a short X axis, on Journeymans!