See attached finished, switch frame net which has taken most of the day to produce. This was cut at 0.1 mm depth per pass at 900 mm/min feed and 12...

Obviously I have to do all the thinking in this damned outfit! 😆 No ideas yet, anyone? No ideas but I feel the same way on another forum I a...

I bought a Stepcraft tool height/zeroing sensor but removed it because I somehow didn't trust it compared to zeroing with a cigarette paper! Doug

Thanks! I think 900 mm/min, spindle speed 12500 rpm will work better I'm not sure that sheet is available in the harder alloy grade but I'll check ...

I had a go at cutting 3/64" (1.2 mm) aluminium sheet (grade unknown) this morning. This piece is a foldable net for a frame to hold six DPDT parallel ...

O.k., thanks. I am looking at getting an EMCELBN carbide end mill, extra length, ball nose 4 flute (5 mm diameter, 31 mm flute length) ball end mil...

Thanks for the responses guys. I'll look into your suggestion Roy. Regards. Doug

I recommend MeshCAM from GRZ Software for genuine 3D work. It copes well with 2.5D geometries too. Doug

Here's 1h 45m of video footage of the milling of the upper body section of the replica Brian May Red Special guitar. There are some discontinuiti...

Hi Norbert. I successfully removed 2.00 mm per pass at 2,000 mm/min (33 mm/s) on oak with a 4.00 mm diameter solid carbide four flute flat end mill...

Here's an hour's worth of video footage of the milling of the lower body section of the replica Brian May Red Special guitar. There are three no...

1 hour 44 mins and nearly 33,000 lines of G Code later, I appear to have a Red Special guitar body lower section! 😮 I'm very pleased with how th...

Any luck with this Pete? Did you get any help? I joined the Facebook Stepcraft Crafters page (via my wife's account) to post up some cutting videos...