Mounting and Fixturing
Fixturing a Billet to the CNC Spoilboard
There are a lot of ways to fixture the billet in your CNC.
- Painters' tape and SuperGlue®
- Mechanical clamping to an area outside the fingerboard profile
- Thermal release hide glue
Standard practice is to:
- plane / sand the billet to the rough thickness of the finished fingerboard plus about 0.0625" (1.6mm)
- cut a rectangular profile that contains the fingerboard and any areas reserved for clamping
- accurately locate and mount to the CNC spoil board.
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