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06-11-2018 #10
Andrew,
Thanks for your kind words, I'll be posting about that Dream or Die piece in the next few minutes as there are a couple of questions I have regarding grain filler... Anyway, I buy my cutters from APT in Glasgow. I use ordinary two-flute carbide cutters - the same as I use for aluminium/brass/wood. Heh - they seem to work for everything! A couple of links:
https://www.shop-apt.co.uk/end-mills...d-carbide.html
https://www.shop-apt.co.uk/micro-dia...ide-60hrc.html
Feeds and speeds are very conservative when using the smaller cutter - less than 0.6mm and I'm running around 1-1.5mm/sec - yep, very slow but luckily inlays tend to be pretty small so it's not too much of an issue. The larger 52mm surfacing tool I use is from Wealden:
https://www.wealdentool.com/acatalog/Surface-Trim.html
Francis - that's an awesome looking headstock - that WorkBee is certainly doing the business for you! Good call on the MDF - I take it that you don't get any issues with fibres sticking to the back of the inlay pieces?
Wal.
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