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Spoon - 2024

Project Description:

This project was my final project for Engineering 2 in 2024. I designed the two spoons pictured on left and milled them out of wood and 6061 aluminum on the Tormach 770 Mill in our shop. The wooden spoon served as my prototype, allowing me to learn the fundamentals of milling a spoon, such as using a ball-endmill to cut a smooth finish on the bowl of the spoon, without the risk of breaking a bit on metal. It also allowed me to learn what I liked and disliked in the design of my spoon, as my metal spoon was much smaller and had a cleaner, more simplistic design.

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Machining Process:

Wooden Spoon:

Stock Preparation: End Face Mill, 0.02" Face

Main Operation: Ball End Mill, 3D Adaptive

Note: Because the material was wood I was able to cut the large amount of stock that I did using a Ball End Mill, saving time.

Main Operation: Ball End Mill, 3D Adaptive

Note: Same with my other ball-end operation, the ball-end mill is intended as a finishing tool, but I used it as a roughing tool as I was cutting wood.

2D Contour: Ball End Mill with no Tabs

Note: For my prototype I didn't clear any large amounts of stock, I cut out the spoon in the stock and then used a bandsaw to remove it from the stock.