tired a wood called bow wood or orange osage

[woodman08]

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfPuhEjkNLE"]YouTube- machining a wolf from orange osage osage wolf's head

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjyYqnnFtqY"]YouTube- machining a deer's head out of orange osage wood osage deer's head

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVNODVT05I8"]YouTube- maching a small bird from orange osage wood osage bird

used orange osage end cuts very nice wood to work with ,the saw dust was like rice almost looked edible,machined out very smooth with a 6% stepover

[Phife]

Interesting grain on that wood..

What size ball nose bit did you use to do the finishing?

[woodman08]

I always use 1/4 flat end mill for the rough cut and 1/4 end mill round or ball for the final.
End grain gives a different cut ,very smooth like glass no sanding ,this material was very nice to work with .
Also black walnut end grain is very good also,bit speed were 100 to 75 at 16000 rpm