Well I have just about cracked it,, should have had the template a little nearer to the chuck. Then the end of the ball would not have been flat The wood I used was a bit of forsythia out of my garden. The cutter 1/2 inch milling and the pattern follower 3/4 inch dia Richard
On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 6:02:35 PM UTC+1, Richard Ellis wrote: > > Hi All > I am at a loss to understand why, when I try to turn balls from some pine > to go with some kids skittles I have made, they come out looking like rugby > balls instead of spherical shape. > The wood is 1 1/2 dia. and is held in a chuck,--- router cutter is 1/2 > inch dia. the stylus on the end of the router carriage is 1/8 inch dia > I use a metal washer /plate of the same dia. as the wood as a pattern . > The ball as I have said before comes off oval in shape it parts of very > easily, I do the end of the wood first then travel back to the washer to do > the other side of the ball, it just drops off into the sawdust, which was > a surprise > Do I need a larger plate washer or what do you recommend I do is there > a magic formula for the diameters of the cutter plate and stylus ??????? > Richard > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
