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Redundant Cherry kitchen cabinet doors

Malc2098

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I have some leftover cherry doors from the old kitchen cabinets from when we moved here 16 years ago. So what could I do with them?

With a bit of laminating and imagination, I came up with this. :)

 
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duke said:
Curious Malc, how long did the machine take to finish the clock?
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It wasn't quick, I can tell you that, because I had a few programming issues down to me that I had to resolve. The text took the longest, I think the circular text was over half an hour. the accent cycle and the outer profile were minutes. the fives took a while, too.

I built my machine, mostly from a kit, so I am very conservative with my feeds and speeds, so it's lucky I'm retired and don't use it for a business.:)
 
For those whose brains might have gone squiffy with fives all round the clock, this one's for you.

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I'm still having to reduce their size.

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Preview said they were 6.4mb together.

Can you see how the timber has cupped? I zeroed the Z axis some where near the nine, and that turned out how I wanted it.

But the timber cupped on the machine bed, because it was on a few days while I had to sort a configuration issue. I think the morning sun got to it. So the north/south 12/6 cupped up, causing a deeper cut.
 
Windows said:
Could you program in a reset of the Z axis before every number to avoid this issue in the future?
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Creating 12 individual tool paths with 12 different surface zeros would work but would be quite time consuming.

But I've recently bought a trigger edge finder which also triggers on the Z axis. The control software I use has a surface mapping function that I've not yet learned how to use, but would have avoided the different depths of cut.
 
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