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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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