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Walk the dogs, go out metal detecting. I know some guys don't but I often walk away from the machine for hours at a time, to me thats half the beauty of it, doing something productive in an automated fashion. While this was cutting today went out and found a large cent from 1835 ! IMG_5247.jpg 61110...

Glad to report that I made a save on this one. Used the same tap file so it was just a matter of centering and setting Z a little lower. Had some machining marks towards the top caused by less than optimal hold down, most of them sanded out with ease. Glad to keep this one off the wall of shame. IMG...

Hey how come there are only 49 stars ?

I'm joking, looks nice. When you say too long I am guessing 7 hours or so ?

I never go to any galleries, before or after.
I click "new posts" and click on those that interest me, and don't click those which don't. I personally don't see why anyone would do different.

Absolutely need another plank of YH, will probably have to wait until the kung flu passes, nothing is open.

Hey you made them sideways !
Just kidding, nice work I like em !

Didn't know what I was going to make but I knew I wanted to make something, so I decided to use up the last of my yellowheart stock to make these.
One that says Raven is for a friend of mines little girl [I better make sure to give her the right one !]

Here is the retry, as you can tell, had another slippage/lost steps, this one not nearly as drastic and was able to sand most of it out except the part which runs through the guitar, the knobs are so small I would have had to sand those out as well to get the error. Wish I knew why it was doing that...

Aah...That kinda explains that. IF from bottom right corner though...even dropping Z-Zero .005" and running again after checking collet/bit for "banding/galling" SHOULD have given it to you just by a quick look, But then I'm not there like you Doug....I might have thrown the piece across the room:)...

Am I missing something here? Why couldn't you just reset the cutter, maybe a whisker lower and simply start the program again. You said you were willing to start again in another piece of timber, so why waste that piece? Thats true probably could have, with the depth of that slip would have taken a...

Not a bad idea Mike. First I was going to scrap the whole thing [got a big wicker bag loaded with scrap, am going to burn it in 1 fell swoop as soon as I can get up to my camper]. Then I thought I'd bandsaw it off right on the angled cut, I can make quite a few actual guitar pick guards out of that ...

Ouch, 3 hours into the cut with a prime 12" square chunk of yellowheart. You can see where it happened [using a 45 raster angle], looks like is slipped a good 1/8 or so. With the dust boot on though I didn't notice it until it got to the subjects hand, I could see the hand was flat with no detail so...

It better be made out of double dipped platinum from the land of Oz !

I have seen guys get great results from flame polishing, I have always looked at it as better than nothing if you don't have the proper equipment to do it right. If you try it just remember, keep the flame moving, like with a spray gun. Plexi heats up quick and when its flash point is reached it wil...

Little doubt in my mind its a TBN, even on the vid its apparent that the tip does not come to a defined point. I suspect though that results would be very similar using either one. edit: Most people in comments there say he is using a 15 degree V bit, some say TBN. He himself apparently won't answer...