How Was This Milled?

[omni_dilletante]

This is a cap on a wood toyota show car. I cannot figure out how it was milled. Any ideas.



The car itself is pretty under whelming. You can see the entire article here.

 

[jpfabricator]

On a deviding head set at an angle.

Sent from somewhere in East Texas Jake Parker

 

[jpfabricator]

With a dovetail cutter.

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[jpfabricator]

Great now I will have to get termite insurance on my vehicle too!

Sent from somewhere in East Texas Jake Parker

 

[umahunter]

That cars badass

 

[Steve Shannon]

CNC, with a cutter that was horizontal with respect to the plane of the cap. The cap was rotated around its axis for each flute.


Steve Shannon, P.E.

 

[derf]

A dovetail cutter on a 4th axis, or a rotary table on it's side.

 

[Billh50]

A dovetail cutter on a 4th axis, or a rotary table on it's side.

+1

 

[chevydyl]

Dovetail cutter on a 4th axis, probably easily done on a manual machine with a print tho too

 

[4GSR]

I'm not so sure that is created by a dovetail cutter. Look at each groove and it appears to end differently on each one. The width of each one is different. I bet that each groove is done by one cutter, no doubt, but the cutter changes angle from one side to another. Probably a small diameter mill, pointy maybe, done on a multi-axis mill, like a Mori-DMG 5 or 8 axis mill. That entire car is probably built using a multi-axis mill. Not our typical woodshop variety toys.