Recently finished this guy for a commission, came out so pretty 🖖

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
      9·
      5 days ago

      Wait, this is carved out of wood? Holy shit, I thought it was just 3-D printed from your own model, which was impressive enough to me! Mad respect!

      • CelloMike@lemmy.worldOP
        12·
        5 days ago

        Thanks! Full transparency the rough carving was done on a CNC machine, but all finished by hand :)

        • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
          5·
          5 days ago

          If you ever want some tips on CNC stuff, let me know and I’d be glad to offer advice. I’ve been a CNC machinist for 20 years now.

          • CelloMike@lemmy.worldOP
            3·
            5 days ago

            Yknow, I actually would really like to know how to stop this nonsense happening…

            0.5mm tapered ballnose in maple, doing a raster finish pass in the grain direction, I keep getting these nests of strandy stuff on descending sloped sections, takes an annoying amount of cleanup to remove

            Any ideas how to adjust the parameters to stop it? Tends to happen in oak as well

            • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
              6·
              5 days ago

              That is not a programming issue per se. That is material and setup. Wood is going to do that. It is fibrous, and will tend to tear like this instead of cut (especially if it isn’t 100% dry). There is also chatter that I can see, meaning the work needed to be more secure. One thing that I have learned with the few instances I have worked with wood is to seriously just max out the machine on feed and speed.

              I’d don’t know your setup (or setup practices) but the tldr here is to hold the work tighter and let it rip. Wood is like butter to an end mill like that.

              • CelloMike@lemmy.worldOP
                3·
                5 days ago

                Thanks! Yeah I’m always a bit wary of running these bits too fast, I’ve broken far too many lately, but I’ll max out the rpm and see what happens 🤞

                • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
                  5·
                  5 days ago

                  Oh yeah. Don’t use the tiny end mill for everything. Use maybe a 2mm ball nose as a roughing pass. Let the big one do the work, then go in for the details.

                • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  5 days ago

                  Your average woodworking router is already running at something like 20k RPM for ~6mm and larger bits. High speed should do fine on wood, at whatever feed rate doesn’t burn it. Maybe just use light passes to save your endmills.

                  That said, I am most assuredly NOT a CNC machinist, just a nerd with woodworking tools and a couple of low end maker devices that run gcode.

    • CelloMike@lemmy.worldOP
      10·
      5 days ago

      Yeah the modelling part took longer than actually making it! I’m not much of a 3d sculptor so I did a lot of the fine details by hand after the milling

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    Amazing work … what are the dimensions? If this is the size of my hand that it’s impressive work. If it’s the size of a coin, then you are a magician. Any smaller than that and I’m guessing you are Vulcan.

    • CelloMike@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      5 days ago

      Thanks! It’s about 25cm long overall :) so slightly less than impressive I guess based on the established metrics