A simple tray in Merbau.
I’ll let you guess what it’s for.
Wanted to try cutting hardwood and engraving it.
I need to see what speeds I can push my LR too.
I get that’s different for every build but is there a good way to test this?
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Looks great!
The zip tie on the vacuum hose says loud and clearly… you fit right in here!!! 
Lol I just love reusable zipties. And this way I can use the vacuum hose to clean up.
I’m already ordering brushes to put on the sides so there no chips flying everywhere (especially under the wheels. )
It’s for mayonnaise? 
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Nope, curry wurst!! With Hela curry of course 
Isn’t there just the coolest bunch of aficionados even in the V1 Forum?
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I really, really, and I can’t stress this enough, really hate Hela Curry Sauce… I don’t like any Ketchup, actually. But Curry Ketchup is the worst. My brother loves it but eeeeeeeh. Sorrry. 
Don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel 
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Just glimpses of the truth would lead to madness. Mwahahahahaaaa. 
Philipp I cant stress this enough… you are so wrong…it’s the best thing to come from Germany 
Good old Hela Ketchup, a german discount ketchup brand known for it’s distinct taste (no judgement if good or bad, it’s just very distinct!) and most of all the very unique bottle. It was everywhere in my childhood and some Pommesbude/Frittenbude (cheap takeaway restaurants basically just selling fries and maybe sausage) even had more than just the standard Hela Ketchup since there is a ridiculous amount of tastes available to the true lover of Hela Gewürzketchup, with variants ranging from fruity to totally absurd Best of course being “Curry Delikat” 
There is a very entertaining and motivated fanbase on Reddit (unfortunately in German) that is concerned with nothing but the best of all ketchups: Hela Ketchup. They share reviews, recipes, secret ingredients, hacks, modifications, spottings, … It’s very fascinating
I myself am done for life with Hela since I just had too much of it in my youth
Let us know how you feel when seeing above picture, @Tokoloshe
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You can use @jamiek gcode generator with the “hog-out test”
https://vector76.github.io/gcode_tpgen/
The machining strategy and type of bits used can also impact the overall speed a lot
Using a 6mm bit and a trochoidal strategy, you can remove a lot more material by using deeper DOC (like 4-5mm) and higher speed
This is particularly useful for those large pocketing operations like the tray you just made
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Very cool!
Do you mind sharing what endmill(s) you used?
Of course, I used a 6mm single flute endmill to do the pocket and cut out, a 30deg 6mm engraving bit for the engraving and a 12.6mm round bit for the rounding pass. On the inside (I made a special path for this one6.3 mm offset of the pocket.
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For some reason, I am thinking keys. But coins are in it…
When I visited Germany, we had a hot dog with curry ketchup in a train station. It was cheap and they had a neat machine to slice the hotdogs without being able to cut yourself. The whole thing was without a bun. You just ate the chopped up pieces with a toothpick. A place like that would do well here. Especially by the door of the ice arena. I would single handledly keep them in business buying a hot dog after each hockey game.
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The cultural heirloom you enjoyed there was a “Currywurst”. It is an after-WW-2 dish that somehow got very popular It’s a pork sausage that is first grilled and then inserted into the “wurst choppah” that cuts it up to 1-1.5cm pieces and these pieces are then drowned in sauce/ketchup (depending on how expensive/cheap you go I heard there are even some that use Hela (see above) as their “secret ingredient” 
) and also dusted with curry powder. Sometimes it is served with a small breadroll as a side along dish to soak up the sauce. You are in luck no one heard you call it a Hotdog, as a handbrawl might surely have erupted if some Currywurst-Ultras heard you compare their holy meal to a Hotdog
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It was delicious and I’m sure my 5 German phrases already made everyone tune out my voice.
It was a while ago, but I do remember it being called a currywurst. I’m sure if I got a homemade one, or one from a nicer shop it would have tasted more like a bratwurst. But this one tasted just like a beef hot dog to me.
I need to find what is in this curry powder. I’m not sure I’ve seen that here. We have lots of curry sauces and even curry flavored ketchup. But I think the curry powder was the secret.
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The secret is to take the most cheap-ass curry powder you can find to maximize your returns. Might want to look at Aldi (Trader Joe’s).
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