On Jul 1, 11:36*am, Gene wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:33:53 -0700 (PDT), Loogypicker

wrote:
On Jul 1, 11:29*am, Gene wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:25:43 -0400, HK wrote:
...ordered one of these as a gift for you on your 93rd birthday:

http://www.plasmacam.com/indexfla.php

That's a pretty interesting little machine! *I spent 12 years managing
a CNC programming department where we did just that!

We didn't do plasma, but we did do lasers... we did milling with
lasers.... can't (I don't think) do that with plasma....
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Old school, think waterjet!

Not for milling and one of the things we cut a lot was wood. Some of
the furniture guys tried the water jet thing with wood. You would
think that the results would have been predictable. I guess not....

Oh, I'd bet that the more porous a material, the less predictable the
results. Add to that the fact that the wood's density isn't as
consitent as steel, and I think you'd have about a nil chance of
succesfully using a water jet to cut wood precisely!