James Wye

Final Project

Ceorfan: Handheld Woodworking Tool with Additional CNC Functionality

Inspired by tradition and heritage in woodcraft, consideration through design choices has focused on sensitively maintaining the feeling of traditional tools through material consideration, design styling and product purpose.

Product Purpose

Ceorfan believes in allowing users to focus on creating pieces of work inspired by early woodworking traditions, allowing them to do so in a way that utilises modern-day technology, promoting longevity in creating complex geometry and showcasing how wooden material can be sculpted and carved by the user.

Brand Values

We want to be able to promote creative woodworking for all user abilities and emphasise the importance of craftsmanship and tradition. It is our goal to help produce more woodworking masterpieces without the need for years of training. Woodworking is one of the oldest arts of humankind, we challenge ourselves to reference the tradition of woodworking and the respected tools in combination with a new, computer-controlled, cordless, automated woodworking tool.

General Assembly

The product is designed to provide the user with full 3-axis cutting and carving capabilities. The assembly includes a compact linear system capable of automatically adjusting the spindle cutter to provide accurate data-based movements in the X and Y axis whilst also allowing for carving depths of up to 80mm in the Z axis. CNC tool paths will be generated through dedicated software from user files and Ceorfan library files.