luke11cnc
27-01-2012, 08:04 PM
Hello all
over the next four or five weeks I'm going to make a coffee table. This coffee table is for a friend of the wife's and she has no idea it's coming.
So I started to buy bits (on a budget)
I first bought the model I think she will like, this particular friend Love dragon's in any form so I'm hoping she will like a coffee table if not I could always sell it on Ebay LOL
So as not to waste money I did a trial cut in MDF now this material may be cheap as chips but it's not very good for carving as it will fluff up
I would be interested in a better material for proofing a carving.
So I downloaded my chosen model to cut3d which to my surprise is very basic, in fact I found it to basic so artcam is the program I'm going to try next time
Any way I set up my CNC Machine to carve at 414x300 and at a depth if 15mm
As I only had a 6mm ball nose I wasn't going to run a smoothing pass but at the last minuet I did , but I'm glad I did as I found that the ball nose cutter cut's the out edge of the model which would snap a fine 1.5mm ball nose cutter so I will run a out line cut out before the final finishing pass
so for this time I ran the following cutters 6mm end mill (next time I will use a 6mm ball nose) for the rouging pass and a 6mm ball nose for the finishing pass (next time I will use a 1.5mm or a 2mm ball nose)
so here is the video of the model being cut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GBCAlJvtR8&context=C3df2bc7ADOEgsToPDskI0-R1bamW_rqlPCBNzu93a
5273
I plan to start Laminating the Oak for the table top If the Wood glue comes Saturday which I ordered today from ebay
The Oak came on Wednesday But I need to put it through my planer and then laminate.
I also plan to carve this model onto the legs and all joints to be cut on my CNC Machine
As always advice greatly received
James
over the next four or five weeks I'm going to make a coffee table. This coffee table is for a friend of the wife's and she has no idea it's coming.
So I started to buy bits (on a budget)
I first bought the model I think she will like, this particular friend Love dragon's in any form so I'm hoping she will like a coffee table if not I could always sell it on Ebay LOL
So as not to waste money I did a trial cut in MDF now this material may be cheap as chips but it's not very good for carving as it will fluff up
I would be interested in a better material for proofing a carving.
So I downloaded my chosen model to cut3d which to my surprise is very basic, in fact I found it to basic so artcam is the program I'm going to try next time
Any way I set up my CNC Machine to carve at 414x300 and at a depth if 15mm
As I only had a 6mm ball nose I wasn't going to run a smoothing pass but at the last minuet I did , but I'm glad I did as I found that the ball nose cutter cut's the out edge of the model which would snap a fine 1.5mm ball nose cutter so I will run a out line cut out before the final finishing pass
so for this time I ran the following cutters 6mm end mill (next time I will use a 6mm ball nose) for the rouging pass and a 6mm ball nose for the finishing pass (next time I will use a 1.5mm or a 2mm ball nose)
so here is the video of the model being cut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GBCAlJvtR8&context=C3df2bc7ADOEgsToPDskI0-R1bamW_rqlPCBNzu93a
5273
I plan to start Laminating the Oak for the table top If the Wood glue comes Saturday which I ordered today from ebay
The Oak came on Wednesday But I need to put it through my planer and then laminate.
I also plan to carve this model onto the legs and all joints to be cut on my CNC Machine
As always advice greatly received
James