Monster vs Align-Rite

WilleeCue said:
Can you really see .001" difference in index with the naked eye?
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Maybe. Lets say you were cutting grooves in a ring billet. If you got to the last one and were .001" off, your eyes would not compare a "correct" gap to a gap that was off. Your eyes would be comparing the gaps on each side of the wrongly indexed groove. One gap would be .001 smaller than the correct ones, and the other gap would be .001 larger than the correct ones, making those two gaps .002 different. You might be able to see a .002 difference.

Kelly
 
Kelly_Guy said:
Maybe. Lets say you were cutting grooves in a ring billet. If you got to the last one and were .001" off, your eyes would not compare a "correct" gap to a gap that was off. Your eyes would be comparing the gaps on each side of the wrongly indexed groove. One gap would be .001 smaller than the correct ones, and the other gap would be .001 larger than the correct ones, making those two gaps .002 different. You might be able to see a .002 difference.

Kelly
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Well ... My old eyes are not as good as they once were but still.
A piece of paper is about .004" thick.
I know I could not detect a difference of .004" with these tired old eyes no matter how hard I looked.
 
WilleeCue said:
Are you saying you can cut a shaft (29 inches) in less than one minute?
By that I mean make a tapering cut on a shaft that is 14mm or so at the tip end.
Best I can do is around 6 inches per minute.
Any faster the shaft chatters and ruins the shaft.

A table saw set up is faster but I thought we were talking about a router type cuter moving down a spinning shaft supported at each end like the Align-Rite and CueMonster does.

What new router bit or cutter is there that will not chatter at the speed allowing a 50 inch per minute feed speed?
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DZ had a video in his site where he took .020" off a shaft in ONE minute.:eek:
Joey~It takes me 2 nights to cut 50 shafts~
 
Are you saying you can cut a shaft (29 inches) in less than one minute?
By that I mean make a tapering cut on a shaft that is 14mm or so at the tip end.
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yes it takes a little over 30 seconds.that is one thing the align-rite can do that the cuemonster can't.saw machine can't do it either.maybe that fancy one Darrin Hill had in the machinery section could,but none of the ones i have seen are that fast.
 
masonh said:
yes it takes a little over 30 seconds.that is one thing the align-rite can do that the cuemonster can't.saw machine can't do it either.maybe that fancy one Darrin Hill had in the machinery section could,but none of the ones i have seen are that fast.
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WOW ... I am impressed ... and surprised.:eek:

I am going to start saving up for one of them if it can cut that fast and smooth.
What kind of cutting bit does it use?
 
JoeyInCali said:
http://www.briannaproducts.com/BriannaProductsInAction.htm
:)
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Joey, I did not see anything tapering a shaft in 30 seconds on the videos you linked to.
In fact I did not see anything that my CueMonster could not do.
Did I miss something?

The best shaft cutting speed I can get with my CueMonster is about 6 inches per minute.
Good shaft wood a bit faster not so good shaft wood a bit slower.
 
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i have one of the blud machines and the fastest i can go is 15 in/min even if i crank the spindle up to 40-50k.something about the align-rite just makes it ideal for tapering,must be the wood lathe it sits on.
 
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