So Ian came over Sunday with a project and a bottle of Johnny Walker black. An excellent combination.
The project was milling two plaques – one for his mother and the other for his father. His mom is a pilot – so her plaque were the letters MOM with an airplane at as the hole in the O. For his father’s plaque the A in DAD was replaced by a boat.
We spent a while messing with software and screwing around getting things set up – so we only cut the MOM plaque. Cut it from a 1/8 inch thick strip of wild cherry I had in the shop.
For fixturing we clamped a board to the mill – then screwed the cherry into that board. This way we could machine through the cherry into the wood below with a sacrificial cut. Doing this helps get a clean edge on the cut.
