Re: Milling wood dowels using CNC - did i bite more than i can chew?
CNC is great for a lot of things, but making simple shapes is not its forte. Dowels are a very poor use case for a general purpose CNC router. They're cheap, available in many sizes, and most of all, easy to make with anything from a die and a hammer, to the nice machines awerby linked. the same applies to floating tenons. If it can easily be made with a router table and a miter saw, then that's by far the most efficient way to do it. You'll love the CNC machine, and you'll be able to make parts on it that you couldn't accurately make any other way, but the simple things are probably 10-50 times faster to make with regular tools. Yes, you can certainly make almost anything with one, but until you start working with them, it's hard to grasp just how slow they are, in comparison to dedicated, "dumb" tools.
Luke
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