I have made about 5-8 Easel Pro V Carves at this point all with very poor results. Can you all offer me any advice or tips?
Here is a picture of a recent V carve fail. I used a 60 degree Bit I bought from inventables.
I threw this piece away and re carved with a 1/16" down cut and had much better results.
this bums me out a ton as I was very excited about Easel introducing V carve capabilities
Did you set your stepover to 1% under the advanced menu?
no, I have never changed any advanced settings.
Change the v-bit step over and practice on some scrap wood. By the looks of it, your feed rate might be a bit slow too.
I just went to the advanced menu, do I change the “step over” or the “V-bit Flat Area Step Over”
Sorry for so many questions
Step Over is for regular bits, how much each pass bites in (% of bit width, if I’m correct).
V-Bit Flat Area Step Over is what I was referring to. To compensate if your v-bit has a flat tip.
Thanks! That’s a good clarification!
That´s a good point…or tip?? 
…I wasn’t going to be that guy.
If it is dull it was shipped that way. I have used it 5 times and the first carve was just as bad.
So is there anything I can do? sorry if it was answered above and I didn’t catch it. It does not have a flat tip.
Drop your step over to 1%, make sure you have a sharp bit.
Also feel free to contact Inventables Customer Success team for some additional help 312-775-7009.
@Zach_Kaplan Why don’t you have Easel default to a 1% stepover as described above when the user selects a vbit to carve with? Keeping the same settings for every bit produces horrible results, for those not aware, and ends up costing/wasting material.
That’s a GREAT IDEA!!!
