This will be my first carve into brass. Should I just use the Aluminum settings. I’m making an Ice Cube branding block from a 2" x 2" x 1" block of brass. I’m using Build 813, Built on: 2025-01-15 Free Edition OpenGL: 2.1 Metal - 88 (OpenGL 2.1) on a Shapeoko 4 XXL.
We have a bit on machining brass at:
The big thing is which alloy are you cutting?
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Definitely which alloy. If you’re using 360 brass, it cuts like butter, even better than aluminum due to the bit of lead. I’ve cut several branding irons in it. Winston (@wmoy) has done a video on it which I used for some parameters. Here’s a link:
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Thanks William, I don’t know what the make up of the brass is. A friend of mine bought it on Etsy and asked me to put his initial in it for ice cube branding. I’ll be using a 1/8 for the main pocking and a 1/32 bit on a contour around the letter the project. I was figuring I could try the aluminum & reduce the feed in carbide motion to be a litter safer. I’m I nuts?
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