# I have a design and I think we should discuss it! (Split from: Custom Machining...)

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**Created:** [July 8, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/i-have-a-design-and-i-think-we-should-discuss-it-split-from-custom-machining/56233 "2013-07-08T22:22:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![mullicabob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mullicabob/32/1108_2.png) [@mullicabob](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mullicabob)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/i-have-a-design-and-i-think-we-should-discuss-it-split-from-custom-machining/56233/12 "2013-07-09T00:14:08Z")

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> [@Custom machining for you. (Mostly Free)](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/custom-machining-for-you-mostly-free/55967/70):
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> > [@Custom machining for you. (Mostly Free)](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/custom-machining-for-you-mostly-free/55967/70):
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> > > [@Custom machining for you. (Mostly Free)](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/custom-machining-for-you-mostly-free/55967/70):
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> > > > [@Custom machining for you. (Mostly Free)](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/custom-machining-for-you-mostly-free/55967/70):
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> > > > Plz make this, ignor specs.
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> > > > Specs are messed up
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> > > > Small and wide and light
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> > > First things first, you can’t do machining based on a pencil sketch. This really isn’t relevant until you bring a CAD or CNC code, as far as actually getting this made.
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> > > In regards to the design, it looks to me like a slightly rounded Wet Whistle with a more exaggerated spike. Not something I would be inclined to buy to be honest.
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> > So there was no machining prior to CAD or CNC?
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> > Youth always makes me laugh.
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> Please direct me to the equipment that you use to turn pencil sketches on lathes.  
> I am aware that machining has existed long before computer-aided-design, but I’m pretty sure that’s what Josh requires for machining.  
> You really don’t need to be so presumptuous.
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> And a note to Apollo, if you want someone to make a CAD of this, you should put additional measurements on. Like, a lot. The angle on the spikes, the size and radius of certain curves, etc.

Don’t be so narrow minded!

Draw something and do it. Watched my father who was a self taught everything whittle a 150lb block of aluminum into a 22lb masterpiece. Something that no one had ever done and you simply won’t see.

He used his milling machine and a pencil.

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