CNC milling a box from cherry - faux topology

[@WorksbySolo]

Hey Caleb, that came out nice. Cherry is one of my favorite woods to work with. It’s beautiful and it cuts great. Honestly, I cringed when I saw that bit going to full depth to cut the pocket, but it worked. Cutting that plywood fixture is a valuable tip that applies to many situations. Good job!

[@JoeMalovich]

fusion 360 can do adaptive pocketing both ways so it will do conventional and climb cut successively negating the need for rapids in the corners.

[@Htfhjooffhgghwwwwdf]

Good job. What’s the finish you used?

[@CalebKraftmakes]

that was years ago but I probably used boiled linseed oil, or polycrilic.

[@PjotrStroganov]

Win some time by setting the spiral plunge at a much steeper angle. 45 degrees works just as well.

[@janetpersons2065]

Want to know where you get your wood? Also if the program is available?

[@CalebKraftmakes]

I just buy my wood at my local hard wood store. This was made from Cherry. I think I programmed this one in Fusion 360. It's been years, so I can't quite remember. Sometimes I use Vcarve.

[@BossTweed69]

What is the best end mill to cut hardwood? Would a 4 flute roughing bit be any good?

[@zacharykarr]

Is there a reason you're using a straight flute? It looks like a flush router bit vs an upcut 2 flute spiral end mill which would likely evacuate those chips better.

[@CalebKraftmakes]

not really. I was mainly just being lazy. I had just cut a bunch of plywood and my upcut bit left lots of tearout on the ply. The straight cut worked great. Worked fine here too aside from the ugly amount of chips caught in that big pocket.

[@janetpersons2065]

Are you still in business?

[@StuffWithKirby]

It looked like a major city with all the woodchips bunching up while cutting the inside.

[@CalebKraftmakes]

haha, yeah it did look like that! I was afraid it was going to turn into a failure but it pulled through.