I suppose I should have started a "fluted" button thread as these aren't VCarved. My starter set Onsrud 1/8" BallNose Is about 9 months old, Sooo why not use a brand new Chinese TiN? WRONG!! Didn't do a test cut as surfaced cherry was right there waiting for me--big mistake. I spent a bit of time rescuing this with the Onsrud afterwards. You DO get what you pay for Usually.
Shrunk yesterdays patterns down to 1.25" which when profiled outside the line with the 3/8"Whiteside PRO gives a good size, but 2 of them got too busy and should have gone with 1/16" TaperedBN maybe. If I go smaller my use tapered 1/16"BN for all toolpaths(just a thought).
Button holes need to be spaced further apart, and I need to orient them so grain is continuous between and I must have had the "rotate parts for best fit" box checked when I nested them(but why it would rotate a round part to fit I can't figure out).
The light is funky in the afternoon and most of my pics look more like sugar cookies than buttonsTo bad they are only single lines(be a great cookie mold), maybe bitmap trace a preview in high contrast colors?
Black Walnut, maybe Padauk or Lacewood tomorrow. Buying 4X24" presanded scrollsaw ready 1/4" saves a lot of work(should have gone 5 or 6" width for this stuff though).
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