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| ieezitin:
Hello guys, I have a friend coming over my shop this week end and he wants me to mill a piece of mahogany slab 1’’ thick, he wants a small groove (90Deg end mill) x .200 deep, The radius of this will be about 8 inches. The outside diameter will be 11-1/2” ( end mill ) this will be all done on a rotary table. My question is there any techniques involved in doing this on a conventional metal milling machine, router bits? Endmills? I have never machined wood on my machine. Thanks Tony. |
| Arbalist:
I've cut wood on my mill. Use the sharpest slot or endmill you have and run it faster than normal. |
| chipenter:
Cutting wood on a mill is easy but the feed is the key , to fast and it will be raged on the edges , to slow and it will burn , ask him to bring an offcut for a test piece . |
| ieezitin:
Chipenter..... we will have the rough edges to play with..... thanks for the tip on the feed.. Arbalist... all i have on the mill is about 2200rpm............... hoping this will be enough.. not looking forward to the clean-up... ;( Anthony. |
| Arbalist:
2200 should be fine, I ran a 3/4" cutter about that speed on wood. Depends a lot on what type of wood though! |
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