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The price ($175) seems reasonable. I paid more ($218) for my Kent dust shoe back in 2013, same setup except one spacer. The product still is worth...

Considering a new one, in the setup I have, is over $310, what is market value on one that is 3 years old? I won't split the package up.

Sure but only if the price is way less closer to true market value - really only need the used 3" one with just one spacer

Shopbot will be send a machine !! on another note I am getting a good many calls and emails about seats left there are 35-40 left if you need to...

Thanks Jeff......When you and Don retire you can be a Shopbot Bum like me:) Of course cabinets and furniture would daunt ME:) Just paying back a...

Wow- like many others here, wish I had the time to try such cool stuff! Particularly interesting to me was the "lin-wax" methodology. Pretty dang...

Thank you all for the kind comments! The "Mom's Harley" project was the first one in a while made from perfectly a straight/parallel...

Nice! Need to tighten the chain on the Harley. :cool:

Beautiful work Scott!! I think when I retire from mainly cabinet work, I'm going to start using my CNC to do the cool stuff you do.

Beautiful work!

A couple more, but Harley was dimensioned first,and was a test cut for a larger one so was playing with Brady's 3D VR settings Finally...

I'm sorry Tony. I completely spaced on calling you about this. Are you still interested? I could try and call today after I finish a project...

I usually don't have time restraints on 3d projects. So, if I have a job that requires a smoother surface with little, or sometimes no sanding, I...

yup that is exactly how i do it. And if the differance in the preview is not so great go with the larger bit, if it is great go with the smaller...

"I'm clear now that the tilted ("off normal") strategy is really only for 5-axis machines that can calculate and then deliver a consistent angle and...

Hello again Eric - you've hit the nail on the head by pointing out that in the example I posted the ball end cutter would almost never be "normal" to...

I really enjoy doing the final, detailed sanding too, Coryatjohn, and I can't imagine how much time it would take to do large curved surfaces...

Photos work fine. Good looking machine.

The factor requiring sanding in my 3d work is not the actual cutting but the ridges left by the stepover. I can follow your thinking on not cutting...

Sold thanks for looking.

Chris, in that sample you show there the bit would almost never be "normal" to the face of the part, so even on a 3 axis machine you'd still, for...

The best way I have found to determine what size ballnose to use is with the toolpath animation. For example start with a .25" ballnose and follow...

Maybe I'm a freako here but I really enjoy doing the final, detailed sanding of a nice piece I'm working on. It puts a bit of humanity in an...

Hi Eric - Stepover as you say is important in the type of curved surfaces I'm interested in beginning to do bigger than I have so far done, and I'm...

I think it might be worth going back to your original assumption for a minute: "I'm convinced ball end cutters don't really cut at the very end...

Thank Eric for your feedback too. As I mention in my reply above, I've got good CAm simulation software. But I'm going to look into it a bit more...