bought a nice maple slab

[lex]

No clue at all on the preview. I am a newbie that just fumbles through as best I can. In fact when people say "feed and speeds" I can understand what they mean but no idea on making them. The machine runs at whatever it is running at and the inverter is set to what I think is about 12,000 RPM. (It is in Hrtz)

[cowboy1296]

trust me i aint the smartest tack on the block and am only repeating what i have been told, what i use and it does work.

First calculate your tool path with the larger bit and click preview. "LEAVE THAT PREVIEW VISIBLE" and then calculate it with the smaller bit. Watch your screen closely and then click preview. You might use animate or not, but you should see some change on your preview screen. If it is a lot of change then go with the smaller bit, if not so much then choose to stay with the larger.

I use cherry and black walnut and my feeds are 2.6 inch per second and 2.6 inch per second plunge. I do pretty much an 8% step over no matter which bit i use

I do change my VR values for 3-d. These values were sent to me by those who have more talent than me, again they work.

No matter what that is a hell of a carving that you did.

[kitcabsource]

Wow!!!
See, now that's some of the work I want to do!!!! I'm glad you mentioned the cut time involved. If a spindle is quieter, then I must look into one because my shop is under the kids bedrooms!!!
Question for cowboy....
Are you saying that the cut time for lex could have been faster ?

[myxpykalix]

kitcabsource re: sound...be aware that sometimes the material you cut thru or the bits you use may make more noise then the spindle or router, or even dust collection system you use. So you may spend money on a spindle for sound reasons but it not help and you've spent more money for no help in that reason.

[kitcabsource]

kitcabsource re: sound...be aware that sometimes the material you cut thru or the bits you use may make more noise then the spindle or router, or even dust collection system you use. So you may spend money on a spindle for sound reasons but it not help and you've spent more money for no help in that reason.

Maybe I'll just buy the kids ear plugs !!!!!! Lol

[joe]

Aside from a Spindle being so quiet it also gives the option to speed up or lower the rpms. On those long runs you can dial the speed that's so perfect the ear tells you all is well. Jack Jarvis is correct in saying this may not be a good move for the novice.

Some of us run 3d files over night. Ron, my support is finishing up with a dozen 3'X8' woodgrain panels that take approx 5' each. I'd never trust a router overnight so it's the trusty old spindle. For the life of me I can't think a technical advantage for the router.

[gc3]

mirror frame file run from 8 pm until it finished this one 1550mm length...have run many files 24 hrs plus...