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    Default Playing with a free burl:)

    Met a guy at Leo's unofficial meet and greet last summer...not a Shopbotter(DIY), but hit it off.
    Brian has been dropping burls as gifts, and I've been stuck in bed for a month, so first time back in shop I decided to surface the biggest burl to max thickness just to see what I had to work with
    First thing was it was 1" too tall for my shortest bit...timber framing chisel made short work of that.
    Then changed my VC "safe Z" to .01", and in my VCP material set up I changed Z1 and Z2 and home position to .02".
    Eyeballed the thickest point and my cutters CEL, and set my Z there.
    With the Whiteside 1.25" mortise bit the Desktop easily handled 3IPS .2" pass depth at 30% stepover at 15K.
    I just MN'd down with a one pass pocket toolpath so I could see what the grain was doing.
    NICE to get back into cutting, and see grain emerge!
    The tree side has major holes and bark intrusions, and thinking maybe trying infill ala Steve G.
    Going to go over it with dental pics/etc. removing loose bark while it moves to its final shape, so I can go final depth depending on if it wants to be a side table with live edge Black Walnut legs I've surface that were firewood.
    Heck...Maybe it wants to be something else
    Made me smile while it was cutting!
    Sorry so long winded.
    scott
    Hey, I'm easily amused with free burl at every visit
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    2013 Desktop/spindle/VCP 11.5**
    Maine

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