Vectric Customer

Did the bears a couple of years ago, wanted a big one for my own wall for a long time so used 4inch cedar and cut it 4ftx6ft in size, was a long cut non stop, 109 hours using a 1/8 bit.

Leo, I have done some big cuts full table and never run into it, I have played with tool paths that wouldn't complete with ultra small tip size.

Leo I am so curious as to what you are cutting... and your bit size ?

Nice stuff AJF, no questions as I use pretty much the same methods.

Thanks for the comment, its slow growing cedar..

For a friend his wife requested the graphic.

Good stuff Michael, I have some interest in this area also.

Well the reason for 2 was to see how much diff. there was with the step over, one was done at 10% the other at 14% and the only diff is a teeny bit of breakout at 14% otherwise I can;t see any diff. one took 9 hours the other just about 13 hours I just did the finish pass with a very slow start to g...

Thanks Leo, Cowboy I love the oldish look of that wood, I would guess a little sun bleaching would make it a 100 years old quite quick, like old wanted posters,,

Hey Cowboy, think Ive run across you a few times, yes softwoods can be agrivating for breakout and the fuzzies, but this northern slow growth jack pine
seems not that bad.

Thanks fella's.

Made this urn for a close friend.

A couple of test runs, going to do a series with different critters for cabinet doors.

The dust collection system was over whelmed very quickly, running a 3/4 2.5 long 1/2 inch shanked bit doing the 3 roughing passes, 3/4 inch passes. I ended up using a big floor brush to rake the chips from the table, as there was a rooster tail coming from the bit in one direction. I left the dust c...

Size 48 x 72 depth 2.0 material = 3inch Cedar roughing passes + 7 hours
Finishing pass + 77.73 hours

Customer said lets go for it, as Gene would say...BOOM.