Spyke
lemmy.world

Wait, this is carved out of wood? Holy shit, I thought it was just 3-D printed from your own model, which was impressive enough to me! Mad respect!

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CelloMikereply
lemmy.world

Thanks! Full transparency the rough carving was done on a CNC machine, but all finished by hand :)

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I wish I had an ounce of that level of talent when it came to making things, great job!

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CelloMikereply
lemmy.world

Yknow, I actually would really like to know how to stop this nonsense happening...

0.5mm tapered ballnose in maple, doing a raster finish pass in the grain direction, I keep getting these nests of strandy stuff on descending sloped sections, takes an annoying amount of cleanup to remove

Any ideas how to adjust the parameters to stop it? Tends to happen in oak as well

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CelloMikereply
lemmy.world

Thanks! Yeah I'm always a bit wary of running these bits too fast, I've broken far too many lately, but I'll max out the rpm and see what happens 🤞

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Your average woodworking router is already running at something like 20k RPM for ~6mm and larger bits. High speed should do fine on wood, at whatever feed rate doesn't burn it. Maybe just use light passes to save your endmills.

That said, I am most assuredly NOT a CNC machinist, just a nerd with woodworking tools and a couple of low end maker devices that run gcode.

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jlai.lu

That Starfleet logo shaped support base is a really nice touch !

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feddit.org

Uh nice! Did you create the model yourself?

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CelloMikereply
lemmy.world

Yeah the modelling part took longer than actually making it! I'm not much of a 3d sculptor so I did a lot of the fine details by hand after the milling

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Really beautiful peace. Wonderful eye for detail. Really!

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lemmy.ca

Amazing work .... what are the dimensions? If this is the size of my hand that it's impressive work. If it's the size of a coin, then you are a magician. Any smaller than that and I'm guessing you are Vulcan.

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Thanks! It's about 25cm long overall :) so slightly less than impressive I guess based on the established metrics

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