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James,
That is exactly what I did. I wanted to use the indexer, and program it to do a side, turn 90 degrees to do the next side, and repeat until all four sides were done.
This method worked great...

The latest creation to come off the SB. 7"x18" Cedar square finials to ship to the Boston area.

Gene,
It all depends on the spindle we are copying. For these I use an 1/8" bit because of the small beads.

Thanks guys.
They were turned on the indexer. To match the profile, I measure them and plot out the points in my old Bobcad(because I am more familiar with it) then save a dxf to transfer into...

After alot of playing, and adjusting, and more than my fair share of cursing, I may finally be getting the hang of this machine. These are some spindles we copied and turned for a couple customers on...

Thanks Scott
That worked great. I found a really annoying foghorn sound file online. Now my guys have no excuse for not changing the bits!

Does anyone know if there is a way to activate the warning signal when it is time to manually change bits?
Thanks
Jacob

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