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Cutting dovetails, how hard can it be...
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 632286" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>I thought about the cutter path direction, and sorta figred you were. Just remember to have everything locked down, but the slide. And also tighten the gibs as tight as you can get by with (always adjust them at the far ends of travel, and never in the middle). If your parts are short enough, turn your vise and cut front to back (or vise versa). Then you can lock down the table as thats the first thing that will move on you. Just remember that climb cutting on a finish pass is a one time thing!!</p><p> </p><p>After the other post I remembered why I hated to work with dovetails cut on a mill! They have some much induced stress in them from the end mill that they change all over the place when you scrape them! You don't get that off a shaper using single point tooling. Of course I was working with dovetails that often were an inch and a half tall, but have done some that were only about a quarter inch. </p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 632286, member: 25383"] I thought about the cutter path direction, and sorta figred you were. Just remember to have everything locked down, but the slide. And also tighten the gibs as tight as you can get by with (always adjust them at the far ends of travel, and never in the middle). If your parts are short enough, turn your vise and cut front to back (or vise versa). Then you can lock down the table as thats the first thing that will move on you. Just remember that climb cutting on a finish pass is a one time thing!! After the other post I remembered why I hated to work with dovetails cut on a mill! They have some much induced stress in them from the end mill that they change all over the place when you scrape them! You don't get that off a shaper using single point tooling. Of course I was working with dovetails that often were an inch and a half tall, but have done some that were only about a quarter inch. gary [/QUOTE]
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