Routing Wood

[Tweakie.CNC]

Sorry, I should have posted full details with the picture.

There were no tool changes and the cutter was 3.5 mm diameter as the one on the right in the picture here :-  http://www.flickr.com/photos/22267456@N05/2547381165/
However, I reground the end to make it more of a 'ball nosed shape' ( this took some time to do as the cutter is solid carbide and I do not have a diamond wheel ). The feed rate was F450 and the spindle speed was 3000 rpm. I took approx. 1 hour to cut.

Thanks to everyone for looking at my postings, I hope they have been of interest.

Tweakie.

[Chaoticone]

Very nice again Tweakie!  Bravo!

Brett

[budman68]

Wow, a 450 feedrate? Do you by anychance have any video? I'd love to see that in action!

Thanks again for the details!

[Tweakie.CNC]

Don't get too excited Budman - I work in millimeters not Inches.

(The G-Code had a F300 feedrate and this was increased to 150% within Mach3)

[jack_live]

here any works executed in my machine   

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/558637512LYGHjH?start=140

[Tweakie.CNC]

You have certainly made some wonderful stuff there Jack.

[budman68]

Very nice looking work, Jack, thanks for sharing - 

[Tweakie.CNC]

Not strictly speaking Routing but more like Profiling. I thought you might like to see what happens when making wooden gears for wooden clocks and I get the tool lead-out in the wrong direction. As my old school reports used to say "Could do better".

[Tweakie.CNC]

More wooden gears for wooden clocks.

These little beauties have been profiled in one pass from 3.5mm plywood. A bit furry when cut (the plywood always seems damp this time of the year) but they soon clean up.

[Tweakie.CNC]

A few more. Experimenting with different tooth forms and diametral pitches.