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To Rcnewcomb ; I like the Corafoam link you posted. the 2 inch will cost about twice what I paid, but I could also carve two panels for the size of Coraform that I would get. Especially if I don't have to worry about warping. Have you used the Corafoam ? I wonder if I would need a different bit to c...

To Xxray; Yes I ran the finishing in base open area's faster which made it a little choppy but I planned for it to be covered by the vinyl starry pattern in the background that you see in the finished painted pics. I also ran a 1/4 inch end mill around the base perimeter to smooth out the background...

To Rcnewcomb : I guess you know what your talking about. LOL !, I had to re-enforce the 2 inch thick panel with clamps, clamping 1.5 inch steel square tubing to the ends of a warping panel. It warped about 3/4 of an inch at full depth of cut. This was not an easy project. I spent close to $600 in ra...

Thanks for the advise TReischl, another reason I use smaller bits is I made my table from steel plate re-enforced plywood gantry. This machine provided me a way to teach myself CNC carving. But I now agree with you that a long 1/4 inch end mill will put more torque on the frame that holds the router...

I also, forgot to mention that to cut the roughing cut, I used ( 2) 3 1/2 inch length 1/4 inch diameter end mill bits , and (1) 3 1/2 inch length 1/8 inch diameter ball nose for the finishing cut. I purchased these extra long life & length bits that are spectra coated from ToolsToday.com.

Also, I forgot to mention that the wood panel is 2 inches thick, I purchased the wood panel which was made from glued spline fingered pieces of pine wood from a company here in northern California, by the name of Perfect Plank. The raw panel cost Approximately $190 dollars.

This is my prototype Earth Wind & Fire Panel, I have already upgraded the power on my Stepper motors, the next panel I cut will be cut at about 225 hours. I designed the 3D image from a picture of a Earth Wind & Fire album cover. To my knowledge I am the only owner of this gcode. I am in the process...

This is a 3 ft. high by 4 ft. long 3D Earth Wind & Fire Panel, I carved it on my custom built 3 axis 4ft by 6ft CNC router. 1 million three hundred Thousand gcode instructions, 300 hours for roughing & finishing, plus 2 weeks painting. Carving is 1 3/4 inch Deep.