Need Help!- Wood Turning Question

[Minna]

Hey Everyone,

I bought some 3/8in x 3in HSS blocks to grind up for cutting wood baseball bats.

I would like to know if anyone can show me some examples (drawings/the tool it self) of the best angle to use to cut my wood. I just can't find the smoothest cut.

My Chuck is on the the Left side and will be cutting left to right only.


Thank you,
Minna

[ger21]

I've never seen one, but you might want to look at the cutter of a lathe duplicator. It does basically what you're trying to do.

http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx...e=details#tabs

[teamtexas]

Getting a smooth cut on wood is tuff. I used a v shaped bit to cut down a 8" cylinder of oak. Small cuts @ medium feed rate. The real trick was to sand the cylinder in both forward and reverse. The finish looked like it had a coat of wax on it before I ever applied anything.

[veupton]

I have the VEGA Lathe Duplicators pro, it works ok. You do need to use a Diamond V cutter to get a smooth cut. you will still have to sand.
FYI i have two wood lathes one 36" and one 144" bed. im new to the CNC thing and plan to change over both my lathes to cnc.

[Big S]

I worked with copy lathes and wood tools for about 11 years at a previous job, I could get photos of the lathes and specific tooling we used if you still need some, some passes we were removing over an inch off the diameter each pass,

Shannon

[ambrosefx]

Here are 2 examples, try them and make sure that the cutter has a small radius on the tip approx 1/32" to 1/16". I assume you are cutting ASH wood but these tools should work on most all hard woods.

[Minna]

Thanks for your replies,

Can anyone help me out with Cutting Suface Speed? and how I would program that in to my program...

I am new to this and from what I understand is that CSS differs the spindle speed according to diameter of the wood.

So if I am turning a maple wood baseball bat, the begins at 2.75 inches in diameter and the smallest Diameter is 1inch. How would I write this in my G coding in the beginning.