Will acorn support a tangential knife on a router?

[Grifftek]

I was singing the praises of the acorn install I did on the Chinese double head router I refitted with Acorn to a friend with an imported mach3 router.
He said he was interested but would want to add a tangential oscillating knife to his machine.

I know very little about tangential oscillating kinves but I think all the magic happens in the post processor and the knife is just connected to the 4th axis and driven in degrees from a fixed home point?

Does anyone have any experience with tangential knives and can you recommend a source for purchasing one?

Thanks
Bill

[martyscncgarage]

I was singing the praises of the acorn install I did on the Chinese double head router I refitted with Acorn to a friend with an imported mach3 router.
He said he was interested but would want to add a tangential oscillating knife to his machine.

I know very little about tangential oscillating kinves but I think all the magic happens in the post processor and the knife is just connected to the 4th axis and driven in degrees from a fixed home point?

Does anyone have any experience with tangential knives and can you recommend a source for purchasing one?

Thanks
Bill

Bill, is this what you are talking about?
http://donektools.com/

[mikes]

That is a cool tool! One more thing to add to my list.

[Grifftek]

Hi Marty
No that is not the same thing. An oscillating tangential knife is essentially a jigsaw that has its blade being steered by an axis so its tangential to the cut.

https://youtu.be/1-Px8Yzl-kI

https://youtu.be/nPykkXxX2rY

There are more videos on youtube

Bill