CNC Shark Forum

great work- is there an advantage to having the inlay grain perpendicular to the back ground? Sorry for the late reply. I haven't been on in over a month. I put this into an urn for someone. It just happen that the grain was vertical on the urn. I've done inlays on vertical and horizontal grain, an...

I couldn't post more that 3 files in the first post. Not sure why, but here are the rest.

I did my first inlay about a month ago. It's been a bit of a learning curve. But thanks to several posts on this forum I've finally got the bits and machine (CNC Shark HD4) dialed in. I decided to push the limits and see how fine of detail I could get in my inlay. I'm actually amazed at what this ma...

Ed, The X worm nut was indeed loose, and the bit was not leveled with the table. I decided to go through the entire top part of the machine. I pulled the router, removed the router mounting base, and tightened every nut I could find. And almost all of them were loose. I also decided to move the gant...

Ed, You are helping very much actually. I now know that the machine is capable of cutting more material at faster speeds. That means my issue is not with my bit or tooling setup. When I hit pause while running the program the router base would continue to vibrate for 3-4 seconds after the machine wa...

Ed, Thanks for your reply. I have done a dry run on the program and there are no issues with shaking when it is cutting nothing. I'm not familiar with the expression "trammed" so I can't answer that. Would you mind sharing an example of a 1/4" end mill...inches / min , stepover and pass depth just f...

I run a CNC Shark HD4 with the water cooled spindle. It was purchased and set up by the person I run it for, and I am the only one who has cut parts on it. The program I am trying to run is a pocket route. It's a 4" x 4" square that is 1/4" deep. I've tried it 0n both MDF and solid maple. I'm runnin...