Making these small signs on oak. Designed in Carveco.
These letters are .06” proud. On the left, I did a clearance tool path at .06” and had some chipout. See where pencil is. This was using 1/8” uc and 1/16” dc. Think the 1/8” inch is where the chip out is doing this.
To mitigate, on the right side I did an outline toolpath with 1/16” dc at .03” on each path. Its working very well.
Now to finish the job with my clearance path noted above, how can I prevent some chipout. Was thinking of changing the tolerance from .01” to .02”. I have never messed with these settings. Does that give the toolpath a little buffer to the edges? The tolerance wont go higher than .02” without overlapping vectors.
Thanks!
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Lol. After further review, still having some chip out. 
Might rethink this design entirely. Ugh.
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Hey Greg,
Those are some smaaaal letters you are trying to leave out of the wood. Fragile while workimg on them and after that fragile untill it eventually breaks. I don’t like to go there, but if I had to, cause client throws big pileomoney at me and want letters that way.. I might cheat a wee by using either a tapered bit, a 30deg or even a 60deg vbit to give the letters a bit more body going down.
And I would not give the client any warranty on the work either. I warned, you insisted, you problem.
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Oak might not be my first choice for detailed work. Do you have the option to try different wood?
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Thanks guys. Decided to just vcarve those letters. And was even able to save the material that way too. This was a not for profit job. Was working with left over material I had on hand.
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