I have found rock maple, a very hard, dense close grained wood, to machine very nicely with the high speeds available on the Unis. Soft woods tend to tear & gum up. at the moment, I'm cutting the barrel channel on a full sized rifle stock on my Clausing miller, using regular endmills, and even with the much slower speeds available on the larger machine, the wood cuts very well.
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----- Original Message -----
From: mrspost2u
To: UNIMAT@...
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:13 PM
Subject: [UNIMAT] Re: Introduction
Yes, female hobbiest here. And that puts me in a second minority, I'm
guessing. :-)
My plan is to use this for miniature projects on softer woods and
metals. So it will be detailed but very small scale work. My
research has shown that this will probably do me quite well for my
current backlog of projects.
I'll hang around and read up on the grown-up models for a while and
see what's what. As long as I don't get too blatantly flamed for my
baby Unimat questions I think we'll all get along just fine.
