Originally Posted by
want2b
Decided to try the 60 degree bit. Hoped there would be more of the gray showing than with the 90 degree bit. Again I got a surprise. I decided to make a small house number sign to help with 911 locating. My previous post shows a carve using the 90 and doing letters 4" tall. Since my boards are 6" tall I went with 5" numbers for visibility. Pic shows my result, went thru the board. I also found I had more shavings in my carver than I ever had since before I had dust collection attached. Pic attached. I have been using a vac system I made early on but recently decided to upgrade to one of the better systems that had been developed and shown here on the forum. The system has worked great on all my wood projects but did have more 'shavings' with my other vinyl runs than with wood. The good news was the shavings must be heavier than wood and almost all stayed lower in the machine. 15 minute carve, 20 minute cleanup.
In a way I can understand centerline not allowing control of the depth but shouldn't it show the depth it is going to carve?? Obviously larger lettering will go deeper to attain the width needed so every time you change the height you have to set up a way to show yourself how deep you may be cutting.
This goes to the other issue I see as to the number of passes require to make the cuts. I was in the next room while running this carve and heard a funny sounding high pitched noise and went to investigate and realized it was cutting over 1/4" deep in single passes. If I was doing this in a hardwood I'm pretty sure I would be stressing everything a lot. If I need to do a cutout with multiple passes?
Just some thoughts. Maybe I should have posted this over in the centerline area, just some thoughts.
Rick H