Carving poplar

[myxpykalix]

Thanks Dan i'll write that down and go check it out at lowes. I was disappointed by the results i was getting carving this poplar and didn't want to give up on it.

[Bob Eustace]

Fred from Centurion has fantastic cutters at keen prices however his Vee cutters are simply awful and can even fuzz in hardwood. We ended up using them on PCBs with good success. Hitting sanding sealer with a hair dryer on final pass does help as does the old run the file again trick as mentioned on the Vectric forum.

[jhedlund58]

i set my stepover to 8 percent... not 10. and my plunge rate to .3 takes longer to machine worth it to me. then i use a flap disk in my drill to get the rest out. many flap disks are horizontal flaps or across the rotation. i found a verticle disk at box store... sanding pads are in direction of rotation... these things take very little material off and remove remaining nubs nicely.. i do agree that nubs come off better after sealing of some sort. And 0000 steel wool is very nice as well.