Found a photo that you can see the depth difference - it was after spray.
Top/right side by the "P"
Top/right side by the "P"
You could take 3/16" in the first pass and a light 1/16" clean-up pass for the second and probably get better results.Follow up question - I mentioned taking out 1/4", is that too much for a single pass? Should I have used two passes for this much material?
Hi! since your questions has been answered and you got a lot of suggestion/recommendations, tips and ideas. We would like to know how's your work going on. Excited to see your work done as well. Impress!I am new here, and really new to woodworking in general.
I picked up a DeWalt DW618PKB setup and was doing some test cuts. Essentially trying to make a sign where I'm removing 1/4" depth around all my letters.
For my first try I was pretty impressed on just how well I did. Practice makes perfect right???
The photo is after using a small bit to edge everything. I do not have a good photo after removing the material.
I then used a 1/4" spiral upcut bit to remove everything inside the square outline. All was going good until I got to the last 25%. At that point I started noticing the depth seemed to have changed. Maybe 1mm max, but still it was visible.
My question is - is this normal or was I doing something incorrect? Did the bit expand with heat and I maybe should have gone slower or used 2 passes for the 1/4" depth?
Just looking for an idea to possibly keep this from happening in the future. View attachment 396277