Fine detail Wood.

[Leadhead]

silyavski
Thanks for your advice, especially feeds and speeds.
Do you use small down flutes or straights? I currently only have miniatures in standard carbide up flutes.

[Boyan Silyavski]

Hi,
i use mainly Kyocera solid carbide bits from Drillman1 ebay. Very very sharp and cheap too. Small stuff i profile usually with 2 flutes fishtail bits. Generally i use 3mm/ 1/8" / bits for profiling. If you are planning to use smaller, you would have to lower the Feed rate even more. He has a lot of small bits. I use only Upcut.

For details and so i use V cutters, mainly 60 degree for general engraving. 3O degree is very sharp but you have to slow it down at least like 3 times from what i said before

if you need smaller than 3mm bits, the best he sells are the ones mounted on 6mm or 1/4 shank.

You need these, take note of the fishtail , not square end and how the flutes are deeper for a better chip removal. These will stay sharp longer time.




These below would work but its primary use is towards aluminum and you have to slow it down even further. They have X times worst chip cleaning than the fishtail. Though they are quite stronger as the flutes are not so deep.

[Boyan Silyavski]

ps. Forgot to tell you. The 3 FLUTE CARBIDE ENDMILLS - 0 HELIX Kyocera Tycom he sells are brutal. I use the 1/4 constantly and could say its the best ever router bit for wood i used. Now i saw that he has 1.6mm ones. and 2.4mm ones .

These are or could be even better than the 2 flutes fishtail in certain scenarios. I did not know he has so small of them. The photos does not do them justice, so sharp and shiny are they in reality. I like them better for soft woods especially if the wood has nasty fibers.

[Leadhead]

silyavski
Ordered some 1.6 from drillman1. Thanks, tested my schoolboy Spanish!!!!

[Boyan Silyavski]

ha ha, i send you the link from ebay.es , forgot about that.

The savings are considerable. For example what bit he sales for 6$ is 20€ here in Europe , from the German Kyocera branch.

[fifa]

I am doing fine carving with mini saw cutter angled at 45 deg and 6 mm in dia. It last much longer. Cleaning with virgin V cutters.
V cutters are cheap and can be resharpened with polishing on glass table.

Maple is not the best but it is much better than beech. 3d deep, maple can be squared.

regards

[Leadhead]

silyavski
Thanks again for your detailed advice. On a quick look I do have a couple of fishtails, ashamed to say I never noticed that detail until you mentioned it. The links are particularly useful and will be no doubt adding my cutter box.
Appreciate your taking the time to help.