Feedrate recommendations for wood

[MikeAlvarino]

Here’s some additional info from another post:

Discussion on Feedrates

Feed rate vs mill size query

I’ve been using a spreadsheet I found here in the forums to do some feed rate computations for my Dewalt and realizing that, in my first days, I was definitely running the bits at too high RPM and too slow for the feed rate. I was getting fine sawdust. Now that I’m decreasing RPMs and increasing feed rates, I’m getting what I assume to be the lovely chips people describe. It’s also taking far less time to cut my various test pieces. One thing I’ve been working on as a project requires some faci…

Feedrate Calculator

Feed rate vs mill size query

CNC Speed Calculator for Dewalt.xls (38.5 KB)