That wood in the video is some of the hardest wood, it can cut really clean, but you have to cut it slower. For what you used a little clean up is normal but try a little more or a little less on the finishing pass. Or pay close attention and see what is leaving the mess, roughing or finishing, tweak from there.
Alright great thanks. Iāll clean this one up a bit manually but on my next carve its going to turn out perfectlyā¦ 
Cheap Touchplate
I have wanted a touch plate for awhile so I was thinking of ways to make one. One of my thoughts was using a washer and tapping a hole and attaching the screw / wire to it but I was lazy so I came up with this idea. I had a machined aluminum block from my Freshman year in engineering school. Using a micrometer I had that Iām sure is out of spec it came out to be .748" aka .75" So I place it on top of my workpiece, home the z-axis and set the offset to G92 Z19.05. Quick and simple and will be perfect for tool changes.
Donāt mind the kitten. She loves the machine and get in my way.
MPCAT. New hashtag.
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I remember a friend mentioning something about a craft ācrateā delivering bits of hobby sized pieces of wood to start with. some randoms, some normals, some exotics. Concept seemed silly at first until I started wanting to try this or that, maybe an dark wood inlay etc. Cool recurring thing.
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Yeah like a subscription box but for CNC hobbyist. A new box delivered each month with a variety of materials to try.
Maker geeks just started something like that for 3d printing.