Amana In-Groove Tool Speeds and Feeds

[ajl79]

Just received my Amana In-Groove kit and was wondering what people are using for their tool setup in Vcarve.


www.amanatool.com/ams-209-8-piece-in-groove-insert-engraving-tool-body-knives-1-2.html

[Woodworking Maniak]

AJ,

You can create their shapes using the form tool in vCarve. Look on YouTube for how-to videos to create those tools. Amana does a great job of providing recommended Speed and Feed Rates of their bits. On the same page you linked, there is a tab about half way down where the first tab is "Specifications" and the last tab is "Speed and Feed Rate". There are PDFs to download with recommended speeds. Using that data, you can set the specifications.

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Here is my tool file for the Amana bits that I use including several of the RCK-xxx inserts so you can see how I defined them. Some were done as Ball or End mills while others were Engraving or Form tools (require a vector to be drawn and selected).

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amana.tool (16.08 KB)