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Originally Posted by Kusha
We use wooden gears for our BEST competition. We have a CNC that can only cut wood. We design them in Mastercam. If you want to make wooden gears, we've found that laminating them with Masonite stops the gears from chipping, wooden gears have a high tendency to chip. |
What size bit did you gut them out with? The one thing I am worried about routing them is that the radius of the cutter might do funny things in between the teeth. Did you do anything special to combat that, or was your bit so small relative to the tooth profile it didn't matter?