What did you cut today?

Cutting a crosshairs mirror mount to sit in the maslow hole to center on a mark. Trying to cut from an abundance design. Very small pieces.
10mm thick particle board from a cabinet.
One pass, maybe a bit too fast. The abundance gcode is ok, not good on the top corners that were meant to make straight cut shelves. Drilling operations are slow but seemed to work.

Here is the thing I was trying to ideally cut and here is what happened. I might try it with slower travel speeds. and multiple passes I wonder if that would correct the wobbles. I ran it three times each a little deeper because I had not set the z height correctly. It was impressively consistent. the close up of the circles and holes below show that maybe it was coming back a mm off but really hitting the same marks each time.

There is a little wobble but the circles are pretty good circles and with a little sanding they looked great and it did fit in the maslow hole. I ran the program 3 times because it wasn’t deep enough in the g code and the ring of 8 drill holes shows that the maslow kept hitting the mark the same each time. They also line up well as you rotate the pieces and peek in. When I compare the circles to machined circles they look within .5mm. I don’t think this is a particularly good idea really for a tool but it was fun to try to design and then cut something out of abundance. It is just too much looking down a small dark hole even with the mirror.

Project here:
https://abundance.maslowcnc.com/run/wouldchuckit/Maslow4_Crosshairs_for_centering

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