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domino11 Tue 14 July 2009 09:22

Beautiful job Mike! What type of wood did you cut it out of. How long did it take to cut?

hennie Tue 14 July 2009 10:13

Heath with a MM sommer chop,chop:)

mikefoged Tue 14 July 2009 13:04

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thank you all. It is made of 4 sheets of plywood 15mm and som timper for the feets. This jump is made out of 3 sheets of 15mm plywood ant it took about 3½ houre to cut one jump, and about a week to paint and assamble

PEU Tue 14 July 2009 20:54

OMG Ponies! :D

mikefoged Sun 23 August 2009 12:07

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here is som more jumps that I made, it is very easy to cut the Plywood after I got a CMT UP/Down cutter :)

javeria Sun 23 August 2009 17:27

Hi Mike what exactly is the meaning of "easy to cut" , was the $63 well worth it?

I am asking bcos I am planning to cut double side laminated MDF and was planning to use a up down cutter, but due to constraints I always end up using the $3.5 carbide tipped cutter which has straight flutes.

the whiteside bits here look much cheaper. May be CMT is better quality.

RGDS
IRfan

PEU Sun 23 August 2009 18:56

How about this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=280383718118 $23 is cheap enough :)

mikefoged Sun 23 August 2009 22:25

It is worth the price, much better quality than the cheaper one. I have cut around. 25 sheets with it and can hardly be seen on it and it cut just as sharp as when it was new, has even run over 2 metal screws without damage :o

lucky me.:D

sailfl Mon 24 August 2009 02:49

Irfan,

From my experience Whiteside bits are of very good quality plus it is a great company. Let me pass on a recent experiece with them. I was searching for a bit to match a cutter configuration I needed for a potential project. Onsrud bits would only cut 70 IPM which is a good speed but I needed faster. I called Whiteside. I was given the President of the company. After I explained my needs, he asked to see some photos but thought he could help me. He eventually sent me a modified bit for free and told me that the price for the bit would be in the 20 - 25 range even with the modifications.

I will be buying more of their bits with that kind of personal attention given by a company.

mikefoged Fri 28 August 2009 08:39

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just some pictures of my finished result after I cut some plywood, I use an offset of .5 mm in the final cut and cut depth 1mm.

mikefoged Wed 07 October 2009 00:32

hi

After some adjustments of Mach3, I got my MM to run at full load with out cutting corners. How is yours CV settings in mach3 and yours lookaHead

Video

sailfl Wed 07 October 2009 05:14

Mike,

In General Logic Configuration of Mach.

I have Motion Mode: Set to Constant Velocity

I have in CV Control :
CV Dist Tolerance : 50
Stop CV on Angles > 45.

Hope that helps.

mikefoged Wed 07 October 2009 05:31

Okay thanks Nils, I set mine to CV Dist Tolerance 200 and the Stop CV on Angles to 70 and my LookaHead is set to 200 works great for me, I really gets very sharp corners in hige speed cutting

Gerald D Wed 07 October 2009 06:00

Are those settings sensitive to inch / mm settings?

mikefoged Wed 07 October 2009 07:05

sorry Gerald. mine is in mm

Gerald D Wed 07 October 2009 07:36

Nothing to be sorry about! I am not familiar with those settings and I just wanted to warn that one must be careful to realise that some Mach settings depends on your inch/mm selection.


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