CNC Setup Project -- Furniture Studio (Toronto)

Job Description

Job Description

Fixed-fee engagement, $900 flat. Starts Sunday, August 23. 10 hours over 2 weeks

About Krisette and Co.

Krisette and Co. is a Toronto-based luxury sustainable furniture brand. Our signature material is "coffee shell" — reclaimed coffee grounds bound with plant-based resin and hand-applied to reclaimed wood substrates. 97% of the materials in our furniture are reclaimed or diverted from landfill. Everything is handmade in Toronto.

Our work has been covered in the Globe and Mail and DesignLines, and we received the Interior Design Show Prototype Award. Our current product line — the Bunn Line — includes coffee tables, side tables, bowls, and coasters, each finished in either Latte or Espresso shell over white oak, maple, or walnut substrates.

The project

We're bringing CNC fabrication in-house and need someone with real production chops to set us up right. We've picked up a used Sienci LongMill MK2 that will be at our Toronto workshop this week, partially disassembled for transport. The Longmill MK2 is up and running with its own table and enclosure.

We already have CAD and CAM files for coasters and bowls from our previous fabrication partner, whose setup used a different machine. Part of your job is to validate those files against the LongMill's capabilities and adjust feeds, speeds, and toolpaths as needed for char-free results on our hardwoods — not to rubber-stamp them.

Deliverables:

• Squaring, tramming, and wasteboard surfacing
• gSender installation and configuration
• Validation and adjustment of existing CAD/CAM files for Bunn Coasters (all three substrates: white oak, maple, walnut) and Bunn Bowls (7′′ and 10′′), with proof cuts and documented feed/speed changes
• Written SOPs for coaster and bowl production — detailed enough that a new operator can run production without you present. This is the point of the engagement, not a bonus deliverable.
• Handover walkthrough with our team at the end of the engagement

Table products (Bunn Classic, Bunn Pill, Bunn Side) are out of scope for this engagement and will be handled separately.

Timeline

• Start: ASAP
• Complete: within one week, weekends included
• 10 hours total, scheduled around your availability within that window
• On-site at our Toronto workshop

What we're looking for

• Real production experience cutting hardwoods (walnut, oak, maple) on a hobby-class or small production CNC. Portfolio evidence required.
• Working understanding of feeds, speeds, chip load, tool selection, and climb-vs-conventional cutting on dense hardwoods. Char-free cut edges are a hard requirement for our process — coffee shell doesn't adhere to burnished or scorched surfaces.
• Fluency with Fusion 360 CAM and gSender (or the ability to demonstrate you can pick up gSender quickly if coming from another controller stack).
• Experience writing setup sheets, work instructions, or SOPs that others have successfully followed. This matters as much as the machining ability.
• Production discipline — thinking in jigs, tool wear, batch consistency, part inspection — not just one-off making.
• Available to start Sunday and work weekend hours within the week.

Fee

• $900 flat for the full engagement estimated at 10 hours of work
• All materials, hardware, and consumables provided
• Machine and tools on-site

How to apply

1. A brief note on your background and confirmation with your start date
2. Portfolio evidence of hardwood CNC work — photos of finished pieces with visible cut edges
3. A sample of any documentation you've produced — a setup sheet, work instruction, tutorial, teaching material, anything. If you don't have existing documentation, write us a one-page mock SOP for: "surface a 12′′ × 24′′ walnut blank flat on both faces to a final thickness of 3⁄4′′, ready for coffee shell application." No wrong answers — we're looking at how you think and write.
4. Any questions about the scope

If this becomes an ongoing relationship after the initial project, great — but the fixed-fee engagement stands on its own regardless.