I have the dewalt 611, manual RPM, xcarve. I’m using a 1/32" bit on Philippian Mohagany. If I use the settings in easel the bit breaks quite quickly and I have tried to adjust the feed rate, RPM, and plunge rate with no luck. Any suggestions would be great thank you.
1/32 bites are to small they break really easy, likely you will need to slow your machine down to a crawl. if you have any play at all in your machine it will also make it difficult. I quit trying to use them all together.
I have used these succesfully in the past
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unless you are really reaching down into tight areas or are using the bit more like a scroll saw blade, you might be better off with a conical bit. The bit below gets you 1/32 at the tip which will allow you carve a lot of detail while maintaining more width at the collet. These are very resistant to breaking.
I did a project with 1/2 inch white oak where I was cutting all they way through like a scroll saw would. I snapped a lot of 2mm bits. I moved to a 3/32 single flute straight bit from Freud which I now use for scroll saw type work. That leaves about a 2.5mm kerf.
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Those bits should be indestructible at that price! Wow!!
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Zirconium Nitride is expensive Traxx. HAHAHA. I am a huge fan of Amana bits, but holy crap that’s steep.
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what settings do you use when you enter this bit into easel? Im trying to input this bit and im not sure SEE BIT HERE
it also doesnt seem as durable as your bits, what settings would you use?
I don’t know what kind of machine you have or what kind of material you are trying to carve, but I have found that a 1/32" tip needs to be slow. Like, REALLY slow. Please remember that the machine doesn’t really care, it will try to do whatever you ask of it, so breaking a bit is very easy.
With a 1/32" bit, I would start around 50mm/m, and go less than 0.5mm per pass. I would suggest 0.2mm to 0.3mm per pass at 50mm/m, and watch and listen. A bit that small doesn’t tend to chatter, it will just break. If it is a softer wood, you may be able to speed up the feed rate, but I would keep the depth per pass quite low.
The more depth per pass you try to put into a tiny bit, the greater the chance that it is going to break.
Think about it this way - If you stick a knife into warm butter, you can pretty much take whatever you want fairly easily. If the butter is cold out of the fridge, it is much harder, and you can’t take it as easily. Now think that if you were to use a toothpick instead of a knife, how would you do things differently?