For everything but roadspeed and height in feet and inches, I’m British and units-confused, Julien probably measures everything in rational units
Ah, now that I’m not sure about. I was suggesting that you want a flat-faced cutter to make a clean job of the bottom of the cut. As your cut is so shallow there won’t be much in the way of chip being rammed down under the cutter to mess things up, especially if you run a roughing and then light finishing pass to take the last bit of depth out.
What wood are you using?
There’s a bunch of threads on V-Carving where people suggest various forms of adhesive liner paper and things to prevent tearout on the surface;
