I’m hoping someone can help me. I want to vcarve a picture and hit the whole thing with Shellac, then pocket just enough to scrape off the top of the paint. It’s worked once or twice pretty well. 2 thick coats of brush on Shellac, but now it seems that no matter how thin I make the pocket it goes to deep and wipes out the carve I’ve been trying to do a .03 deep carve and pocketing .001 and it still wipes it out. I’ve gone to the tool in the database and changed the depth per pass, still no good. Why isn’t CM let me pocket very shallow amts? Am I missing something? Thank you.
Where are you setting zero relative to the stock and how are you setting it?
Is the stock consistent in thickness?
Thank you, the top with a bit zero. Wood is probably not perfect but nowhere near that far off. These were just experiments so did not feel the need to have it perfect. Do you think I would just be better off sanding with coarse through fine sand paper?
Try surfacing the stock first so it’s flat to the machine
Then do you pocket
I normally alway surface the stock first as shallow as I can, you will be surprised how deep you have to go before the bit is not cutting air in some parts
I have put calipers all around the wood and the measurements differed very very slightly yet surfacing showed the middle to be low
Surface the stock and try your pocket is my advice
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Thank you. Appreciate the consideration.
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