I've been wanting to try to build the dust shoe project posted by Bergerud for a while now and finally got to it. I thought I was doing pretty good on the first part. The front and back were nicely aligned. The Carve was in the home stretch when the machine went a bit kooky and snapped off my 1/8 cutting bit. The bit is new so it is (was) still sharp. It only had about 45 minutes on a poplar project plus cutting out the sleds for the dust shoe. Any ideas on what went wrong? Not a big deal ruining a couple pieces of acrylic but 90 minutes on a $40 bit is pretty painful. I'm hesitant to try again unless I can find some cheaper 1/8 cutting bits to put in my ER11 chuck which is sitting and waiting to be tried out for the first time.

Frederick



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