Originally Posted by
srwtlc
Conventional or climb, you're likely to blow off those corners each way with your cherry blank because of the unsupported edge/end grain (vertical orientation of your blank). The ash and maple, you have the grain running horizontal and don't have the same situation, thus the clean cut. Conventional cut is my preferred direction for this kind of stuff.
Another tip for inside corner profiles is to slightly radius them or at least set the "corner" setting for profile toolpaths to NOT have "sharp external corners". This way the tool kind of rolls around the corner instead of a stop/go sharp corner. The resulting finished cut shape is the same though. I have had good results by radiusing any sharp corners. It doesn't take much of a radius and is not noticeable in the finished cut.
What an excellent strategy Scott - thanks!
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