Japanese style walnut slab coffee table

[Cheese]

So for the final cut with the 1/8" cutter, did you take any additional material away or was it just run around the periphery to clean up the 4 corners? Gotta know these things so I can finally get my Shaper up & running. [big grin]

 

[ear3]

[member=44099]Cheese[/member] If I understand you correctly, you just mean the settings on the final inside cut?  (please forgive me if I go on to explain something you already know)  There was no offset on that final cut, but just set to cut right up to the line -- machine calculates what to do once it gets into acute corners like that so that it doesn't move outside the cutting area, so there ended up being more hand work to do to square off the corners than there would have been if they were 90 degrees.

The nice thing about the Shaper is that on the pocketing cut, it stays well away from the perimeter of the cutting field, because it assumes that you will take a final finishing inside cut to get up right to the edge.  Except the first few times I did this sort of cutting I did not realize that and attempted to do everything with just the pocketing cut (rtfm, right?), and so I would adjust the offset so that it did cut up right to the line in the pocket setting.  The line was predictably ragged in a few spots.

So for the final cut with the 1/8" cutter, did you take any additional material away or was it just run around the periphery to clean up the 4 corners? Gotta know these things so I can finally get my Shaper up & running. [big grin]

 

[Cheese]

There was no offset on that final cut, but just set to cut right up to the line -- machine calculates what to do once it gets into acute corners like that so that it doesn't move outside the cutting area, so there ended up being more hand work to do to square off the corners than there would have been if they were 90 degrees.

Thanks [member=37411]ear3[/member] for that info...interesting to know the amount of machine intelligence that's incorporated in the Shaper.  [cool]

But those corners and the shape of the butterfly is soooooooooooo much nicer than a simple 90º corner. [thumbs up]

True story, when I did this countertop about 2 years ago I was going to place a couple of "your style" Ebony butterflies in the gap on the LH side. However, lacking a Shaper and the tooling/fixturing I needed, I just decided to move on without them. I tried to keep the task as a home improvement project and not turn it into a science project.  [smile]  I also didn't want to hack up and destroy a 200 year old chunk of white oak. If I had the Shaper back then it'd probably have been a different story.

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[ear3]

I think I remember you posting about that piece of white oak (yes? no?), though I don't remember seeing it's final form.  That light seeping through the crack is amazing.

There was no offset on that final cut, but just set to cut right up to the line -- machine calculates what to do once it gets into acute corners like that so that it doesn't move outside the cutting area, so there ended up being more hand work to do to square off the corners than there would have been if they were 90 degrees.

Thanks [member=37411]ear3[/member] for that info...interesting to know the amount of machine intelligence that's incorporated in the Shaper.  [cool]

But those corners and the shape of the butterfly is soooooooooooo much nicer than a simple 90º corner. [thumbs up]

True story, when I did this countertop about 2 years ago I was going to place a couple of "your style" Ebony butterflies in the gap on the LH side. However, lacking a Shaper and the tooling/fixturing I needed, I just decided to move on without them. I tried to keep the task as a home improvement project and not turn it into a science project.  [smile]  I also didn't want to hack up and destroy a 200 year old chunk of white oak. If I had the Shaper back then it'd probably have been a different story.

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