pattern help

[PDunn]

ok im having a senior moment , I found this pattern for a jewelry box in my patterns it says board size is 32x11x0.75 and wanted to do it on a piece of nice 1 inch cherry , the board is 36 x 11.25 , when loaded it says the board is to thick , any help would be appreciated in making this work ,do I stay under rollers or not , and when it gets to the prompt board to thick to cut thru it says abort or continue ?

[fwharris]

To keep the board under the rollers to prevent breaking the cutting bit you will need to add some tail stock to the ends of your real board that will get you at least 7" longer (3 1/2" on each end). Or you can break the mpc parts down into individual carves pieces and do the individual pieces in a jig/sled.

For the cut out I would select continue

[PDunn]

Thanks for the insite , I was going to add to the piece to make the 7 needed but the cut thru was the issue , I thought it was something on the pattern that need to be adjusted for the 1 inch cherry

[zan29]

Not sure I understood properly but you cannot cut through a 1" board unless you have the long cutting bit. The reason why you keep getting the "board too thick" message. If you continue you might end up with a broken bit or damaged spindle....who knows!

[aokweld101]

that is something that I had a question about.... when doing a 1.5 thick board how would you get the cut out... the machine says that it to deep to carve so I have not done a 1.5 board......is that where you would use a taper on the cut out and put tabs in ?

[blhutchens]

are you using 2.xx or later? you should be able to carve that deep.

Brent

[bergerud]

Here is an example of a 1.5" deep cutout with tabs using the 1/8" cutting bit. This is in 1.187 and the only add-on required is conforming vectors.

[bergerud]

There is another trick. You can use conforming vectors to get a cutting bit down deeper than 1".

[SteveNelson46]

There is another trick. You can use conforming vectors to get a cutting bit down deeper than 1".

That's interesting. How did you do it?

[SteveNelson46]

I just tried it. Works pretty slick. I guess you would need to use a bit that is capable of cutting to the depth assigned and set the max depth of cut to a depth that won't break the bit.