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This is my latest project. I started with a line drawing I got from Google.
I brought it into Aspire and all in with programming and cutting it took about 6 hours.
everything came out exactly as I’d hoped. i still need to adjust some feed rates and plunge rates and that will shorten the cutting time however I’m pretty happy with how it all turned out.
As far as the finish goes I’m going to primer it, then of course the usual black and yellow followed by a few coats of clear lacquer. It’s just MDF so I’m not concerned with showing the wood on this one.
I honestly don’t remember exactly since I did this probably a year ago.
But both passes must have been 3mm endmills.
The stl I got here:
Feeds & speeds I can’t recall but for smooth finishes i always use 5% stepover. It takes a bit longer, but hardly needs sanding afterwards, if any. I didn’t sand this afterwards. Note that since then I squared my machine and leveled the Z-axis so that is why my flats weren’t completely … well… flat…