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Speaking of, I used a fly cutter over the weekend to thin down some red oak parts. It was a Tormach superfly, I ran it at 5100 rpm and 25 ipm. Messy but it left a very good surface finnish. I've done wood on the mill before with HSS end mills. It can be hard to get a good surface finnish. Wood likes to work around 4000 fpm cutting speed which is hard to achieve with smaller end mills. I expected that router bits would work on aluminum (I've used the router on aluminum before) but I will have to give them a try on steel.