Made this the other night. Whipped it up quick for my cousin who is getting married. Once again some walnut that was milled from my farm. Bought some cheap, knock off, Oramask to test it out. It worked amazingly well! I had basically 0 bleed through the masking. I didn’t have the sharpest v-bit so on some of the finer details it tore the mask rather than cut but either way you can’t tell and turned out great! Will definitely be using this again in the future.
You can see these like juts in the cut. Not sure why? Any ideas? I ran a test cut on some plywood at a different position on my machine and it looks exactly the same. Here is my Estlcam as well.
Most of the “juts” seem to be where two lines meet (side to side and up/down or angle) and seem pretty minor. But the right leg of the “A” looks more severer.
Thought about both of these. And I guess either is a possibility. Although I did check my grub screws 2 weeks ago and they were tight still. The weird thing to me is that the plywood test cut I did looks exactly the same. Even the “A” has the exact same jut and that was just plywood. Maybe it has to do with the entrance and exit? I dont remember where the bit came and left on the letters.
I’m not sure what’s causing it, but it looks like it’s the path it was on, all the way down the N is curved a bit, same with the I and E, seems like it wasn’t on a straight path. Have you trammed your machine?
I have but now that you mention it I adjusted the spoilboard to fix some issues I saw on the edges right before I cut this. I wonder if I changed it more than I thought. I have a full size LR3 and this sign was only 15" across so I didnt think much of it but I wonder if I changed more than I thought??
This may be the last project on the LR3. Most of my LR4 prints are done. So
if it was an offset from a pocket to a carve, I would guess that the initial zero wasn’t quite at the same level as the top of the wood or the wood wasn’t totally flat. Since it was all the same operation, I’d agree with the tram of your router or your bit slipped down during the cut.
I think you might have just being pushing it a bit too hard. A Large V-Bit moves a ton of material and just gets worse the deeper it is. I would try again slower or shallower passes and see if that fixes it, along with a bit more of a finishing pass.
To me that looks like all plunges are going deep and all movements are defecting a bit.
Keen eye per usual. It was a single pass. I didn’t really think about that part for some reason. And it was a 1/2 in v bit at the widest part. This seems like a duh as I type it now. I’ll retry it. Unfortunately he gets this one cause time is up but maybe the next will be better.
