Okay, I’m revisiting my flag case project for Memorial Day — this requires a 22.5 degree angle to be cut into the ends of the bottom/sides — in theory a 135 degree V endmill would do this, but it would require a couple of stacked V carving toolpaths, and my wife is on an austerity campaign which does not bode well for buying more tooling.
Is there a tool which makes doing this w/ a ball-nosed endmill straight-forward?
I suppose I should just program something…
The straight-forward way would be to use a chop saw. 
But you could model it in Fusion360 and mill it with a ball nose endmill.
Yeah, I’ve got it modeled in BlockSCAD/OpenSCAD, and could export a 3D model as an STL and then cut it in MeshCAM, but not wild about what would be involved in getting that to register w/ Carbide Create.
You could do an angled variant of the front vertical mount trick?
Vcarve can do chamfer paths with a ballnose or you can use the moulding/molding tool path.
Want to cut the part flat so as to get everything in a single setup.
Custom program it is I guess.
Well…
If you go with the ballnose or other cutter and a stepped toolpath, I have found that a nice sharp hand plane can do the last few thou putting a very decent finish on the slightly fuzzy edge. I believe you have such a device and it’s not against the rules to mix old and new
Yes, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to inflict my hand tool predilection on others as part of this project.
Seriously tempted to just break down and get a JointMaker v2, and a shooting plane and board, but those need to wait until I have a dedicated workspace.
You could mount the stock in the overhang area at the correct angle and just cut it flat.
I want the stock flat so that I can cut it to length and cut other features into it all at one go.
For those bored, here’s what a chamfer path preview would do in Vectric.
It would take a bit of fiddling with calculations to get final part lengths correct of course.
Found a program which looks as if it might be useful for this and other tasks:
http://fullcontrolgcode.com/software
it’s intended for 3D printing, but G-Code, is G-Code, right?
Additive, subtractive, 220, 221. Whatever it takes.
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