About CNC Wood Guide
Desktop CNC Router Feeds, Speeds and Router Bit Selection for Wood
What this site covers
CNC Wood Guide is a machining reference for desktop CNC routers in wood and composites. It concentrates on the arithmetic behind a good cut, because on a small machine the difference between a clean edge and a broken bit is usually a feed rate.
- Chip load targets by cutter diameter and material
- Feed rate, spindle RPM and flute count arithmetic
- Router bit geometry: upcut, downcut, compression and V bits
- Stepover, depth of cut and what a light gantry will tolerate
- Machine selection: rigidity, spindle range and controller limits
- Dust extraction, workholding and shop power
- Toolpath strategy and G-code basics
The two reference pages the rest of the site is built around are the chip load and feed rate calculator and the chip load chart for wood, which share the same underlying numbers.
6 articles are published so far. New ones are announced on the RSS feed.
How these articles are produced
Articles here are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, research papers and preprints, and measurements published by whoever took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those cited sources before anything is published.
No article on this site is based on first-hand testing in a private lab, and nothing here should be read as a measurement report of its own. Where a number appears, it comes from a source that is named, so you can check the original instead of taking this site's word for it.
Everything is published under a single editorial byline. That byline is a publishing identity for the site, not a claim about a named individual, and it does not carry professional credentials.
Corrections
Corrections are welcome. If something here is wrong, out of date, or attributed to the wrong source, email editor@cncwoodguide.com with the page address and what it should say. Substantive corrections are made in the article itself rather than quietly dropped.
How this site is funded
Some articles carry Amazon affiliate links and are labelled as such at the top of the page. There are no sponsored posts, paid placements or display advertising. The disclosure page sets out the full arrangement.
Contact
Email: editor@cncwoodguide.com
Site: cncwoodguide.com
Published by: CNC Wood Guide Editorial
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