Janka hardness 950-1010 American black Cherry or Black Walnut feed speeds, end mills and speeds would be great, it will undergo finishing and eventually a polish for a high quality finish.

Whatever the optimal values for these materials are, they’re far beyond the SM’s limitation for power, speed, and stiffness. Wood generically works between at high feed rates, faster than can be easily hand-fed on a table saw, for example. The forces required are quite large; the SM can’t do it. [Ad…

Have to strongly disagree. The SM is more than capable of handling hardwoods. I’ve done a lot of walnut, maple and oak. I’ve also done Zebrawood (1830 janka) and even Purpleheart (2500). The caveat is that you can’t push it that hard. So it’s slow and takes some time. As long as you have patience …

That’s a great answer, thank you. Speed maybe e my friend when using smaller steps, I’m in a CNC programming course right now so I have a great fundamental understanding of how it works, but like you said this machine is not a commercial grade, I’m using it for proof of concept. To produce prototype…

[image] sdj544: Have to strongly disagree. The SM is more than capable of handling hardwoods I did not say it wouldn’t handle hardwoods. What I did say is that the way it can handle them isn’t anything close to optimal. [image] sdj544: The caveat is that you can’t push it that hard. T…

[image] eh9: the SM can’t do it. He asked what settings he should use for specific materials on his SM. Not for the ‘optimal values’ for milling those materials. Your reply was neither clear nor very helpful and implied that he shouldn’t even really try. -S

I’ve annotated my original post to clarify the referent of the pronoun “it” in the passage you’ve quoted. I would think it would be quite clear that it’s possible to mill wood with SM by what I said in the paragraph immediately below, but apparently not.

Hi friends, what are your thoughts on using bits (e.g. flat-end) with a diameter of 6mm on SM? The use case would be for example multiplex or beechwood cutting out a piece of 10-20mm or creating a pocket of 5-10mm (for the pocket rather a roughing pass not a finishing pass). Which settings would y…

[image] CNC Recommended Parameters Events and Giveaways Specs of Snapmaker 2.0 CNC motor Operation voltage: 24V Working power usage: 40W - 50W No-load current: ≤ 1.2A Locked-rotor current: 3A Speed: Up to idle 12,000 rpm When you use Carving V-Bit in Relief mode, it is …

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brent113 January 27, 2022, 8:51pm 9

Look through the forums, there is a lot of info in here. SDJ has answered some of what you asked before here:

Topic		Replies	Views
Cnc Really slow Snapmaker 2.0 (3-in-1)	9	5614	August 7, 2020
CNC and laser sample file size Snapmaker 2.0 (3-in-1)	8	1499	September 1, 2021
CNC materials? what have you tried? Snapmaker 2.0 (3-in-1)	2	625	December 30, 2021
CNC Speeds and Feeds Snapmaker 2.0 (3-in-1)	2	7987	October 19, 2020
CNC Recommended Parameters Events and Giveaways	3	5429	August 5, 2021

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