{"id":958,"date":"2012-12-10T00:38:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T07:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new-gro.dyn.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:16:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:16:06","slug":"machining-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Machining wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Ian came over Sunday with a project and a bottle of Johnny Walker black. An excellent combination.<\/p>\n<p>The project was milling two plaques \u2013 one for his mother and the other for his father. His mom is a pilot \u2013 so her plaque were the letters MOM with an airplane at as the hole in the O. For his father\u2019s plaque the A in DAD was replaced by a boat.<\/p>\n<p>We spent a while messing with software and screwing around getting things set up \u2013 so we only cut the MOM plaque. Cut it from a 1\/8 inch thick strip of wild cherry I had in the shop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-959\" title=\"Milling Cherry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Milling_Ians_MOM_P1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For fixturing we clamped a board to the mill \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-960\" title=\"Finished Milling Ians MOM plaque\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Milling_Ians_MOM_P2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Ian came over Sunday with a project and a bottle of Johnny Walker black. An excellent combination. The project was milling two plaques \u2013 one for his mother and the other for his father. His mom is a pilot \u2013 so her plaque were the letters MOM with an airplane at as the hole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}