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Originally Posted by techhelpbb
Why? A lathe or mill that is properly trammed should be setting the standard for machined surfaces both parallel and at a sever. A ground surface is a level above that for flatness.
I would think the only way that is true is if your cut is very close to target material size leaving nothing to further true-up.
We've been known to rough drive train plates on the CNC plasma cutter because it's fast but the cuts are nasty. We then clean up on the mill.
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Obviously a lathe / mill is going to give you a flatter face than any saw, but it's still nice for roughing out stock to start with a semi-flat face to clamp on.
I like horizontal band saws - if I was starting a shop from scratch and could only have one big saw, I would probably get a portable band saw with a table stand for vertical cutting and then a full size horizontal for cutting out stock and whatnot.