Bat on the rotary

So I got a little shop time in this evening and gave the rotary a try. After loading up the gcode I ran it through a dry run without any stock chucked up and things seems to be doing the right stuff in the right area. I have some old table legs I started on back when I was still single and I've had them around all these years. Decided one had the right dimensions for this project and made use of it.
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The rounding tool path gadget was used to turn the square parts round. It starts with each of the corners and works on one corner at a time until each are round.
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Then it starts cutting the the entire piece down to the largest diameter of the piece to be carved out.
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Next was the roughing of the moulding tool path. The piece turns 360, the spindle shifts over, then turns -360 until the roughing is done.
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On the final finishing pass, the ball mill works the same 360/-360 pattern for the length of the piece.
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Here is the finished work, I'll chuck it up in my wood lathe for sanding and a few finish details, then part the end off.
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I did have one small issue with stopping the job and restarting it. The bit drove right into the end of the bat as you can see above with the 1/4" hole. This is when I learned that my Spindle will send an estop if it gets overloaded, thankfully. I had it do it on one other job and wasn't quite sure why it had stopped, now I know and also need to maybe adjust those settings slightly.

Anyway, should make a nice little T-Ball bat for the grandson to use around the house (or maybe his Dad's house ;) ).
 
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