What CNC router do overland drawer system builders use? At Trekboxx, the California maker of custom Land Cruiser drawer systems, it's the ShopSabre Pro 510.
Trekboxx was founded by David Walter and has spent 13 years building high-end custom drawer systems for Toyota Land Cruisers and other SUVs. The systems lock up valuables for campers, photographers, and anyone who wants a secure, organized cargo area, and each one takes about eight weeks from start to finish.
Early on, Trekboxx outsourced its cutting to local shops. David ended up helping those shops program his own parts, and in his words, "it didn't seem to make sense that I was paying them to program my parts."
Trekboxx systems are built mostly from 5x5 sheets of Baltic birch, which is why David chose the ShopSabre Pro 510 CNC router. Designs start in SketchUp and move to Fusion for toolpaths. A single job runs nine tools, including a pen marker, five drill bits, downcut and upcut bits, and a 3/8 inch compression bit, all through the Pro 510's ten-position tool changer, so the machine runs without babysitting. Parts are cut to allow for the thickness of a two-part polyurea coating, so every drawer face and wall fits on assembly. David points to American-made construction, ball screws on all axes, and support after the sale as the reasons he chose ShopSabre.
The same approach fits overland and vehicle outfitting builders, cabinet and casework shops cutting Baltic birch, and any small product manufacturer paying someone else to cut parts it knows better than they do.
ShopSabre CNC designs and builds CNC routers, plasma tables, fiber lasers, and tube cutters in Lakeville, Minnesota. Watch more ShopSabre Spotlight stories and see how shops around the world put their machines to work.
