How does Spydr Welding and Fabrication cut parametric wall art from plywood? On a ShopSabre IS 408 CNC router, with a laser that numbers every part before it's cut.
Spydr Welding and Fabrication is a custom fabrication shop in Salisbury, North Carolina, owned by Shane Love. In three years the shop has built wood, metal, and plastic products for customers across the United States.
The piece in this ShopSabre Spotlight is a parametric wave wall: plywood slats that form one ripple pattern. Spencer, who handles engineering and design at Spydr, wanted it easy to cut, light on post-processing, and ready to hang. He designs it in Fusion, nests it in VCarve on two 4x8 sheets of half-inch plywood, and cuts it with a quarter-inch compression bit. Each slat carries a laser-marked number and a hook that seats in the backboard.
Spydr Welding and Fabrication runs the job on a ShopSabre Industrial Series IS 408 with a tool changer and a laser module, the same CNC router the shop uses for aluminum and copper. Spencer credits the machine's precision for how the piece went together: "It just worked."
The machine has paid off across the business. Love says Spydr uses CNC to "create and grow our brand." Spencer says laser-labeling parts keeps the shop organized and saves man hours, and that the shop uses the router so often they "just can't live without it." Since getting the machine, Spydr has called ShopSabre support once and was running again within 30 minutes. In Spencer's words, the shop's mix of metalworking, woodworking, and design is "all possible because we have a CNC."
The same setup suits sign shops, cabinet and millwork shops, furniture makers, and fabricators who want one CNC router for plywood, plastics, and non-ferrous metals.
