Powercrafter

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Richard Allen

>Hi Mark

I have found the high speed tool is great for etching or for pericing of thin walled turnings. The bits at 400K are tinny and can easly be bogged down with a deep cut.

Thanks

Richard

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Mark Mandell - Gone Round in New Jersey

>Thanks, Richard.

From my try at the show it seemed that a light touch on the burrs would be important.

Mark

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John Lucas

>Mark

When Binh Pho was at the Appalachian Center for Crafts I was lucky enough to be his assistant. Between all the students We had almost all the brands of High Speed cutters there. They are mostly detail cutters. When vessels were 2, 3 mm thick they cut like butter. When they were 4,6mm thick you really had to concentrate on what you were doing. Thier great for texturing and thin wall piercing but If I was going to use them to hog away materiel I'd look at the higher horsepower Foredom.

I have a 10k rpm offbrand. It's not bad but I borrowed a good foredom and wow what a difference. Of course there was almost $300 difference in price. The 23Krpm of the foredom kept the tool from following the grain as badly and the higher horsepower reallly sped up roughing the piece.

I played with the Weecher that Highland Hardware sells. It's a nice tool but not made for heavy carving. My friend burned up 3 before shelling out the bucks for the big foredom.

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Mark Mandell - Gone Round in New Jersey

>Thanks, John.

That's just the kind of info I'm looking for. I assumed that little turbine to be a light duty, fine-line carver, probably does better in harder materials like bone.

Clearly it's not a "power carver" that'll replace chisels or knives and hog off rough material, but it should do well for texturing and fine line/low relief work.

Mark Mandell

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