#24: Cutting Board With Juice Grooves

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🔪 Learn how to design a custom cutting board with juice grooves and a collection tray in this comprehensive lesson. Kyle guides you through setting up a double-sided project, accurately drawing the board's profile with precise radius corners, and creating the inner juice grooves. Discover how to effectively use various drawing and editing tools, including the offset and fillet tools, and master techniques for evenly spacing multiple lines. The lesson then dives into toolpath creation, covering pocketing for the collection tray (using both end mill and ball nose bits for a clean finish), fluting for the juice grooves (with options for linear or smooth ramps), and profiling for the final cutout. Kyle also demonstrates how to add a smooth radius to the bottom side of the board using the molding toolpath, emphasizing tool sequencing and alignment strategies for double-sided machining.

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Cutting board from this lesson made by Kris W.:

Cutting board from this lesson made by Kevin W.:

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