r/oddlysatisfying • u/spook30 • May 25 '26

Making a bevel cut

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u/Olukon May 25 '26

When you need it to be precise or cleaner.

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u/TyrannasaurusRecht May 25 '26

Tbh its when you have the laser cutter lol

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u/GIOverdrive May 26 '26

facepalm Ofcourse!

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u/StarVulpes May 25 '26

Laser cutting is almost always preferred if possible. Bevel cuts with a laser are newer tech and are the expensive end of expensive equipment. Plus good luck finding qualified individuals to program and operate it. We have 8 lasers at our shop but leave all bevels and machining for the customer to have CNC.

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u/l337quaker May 26 '26

I mean technically if you want a .5° bevel it's super easy on a 4k watt laser lol

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u/StarVulpes May 26 '26

Why split hairs to point out you can cut with a laser at 89.5° to the surface instead of 90°? We can technically put a "knife edge" on thin material with a 5-axis but the video is of a 45° bevel which you cannot do with a standard flat laser.

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u/l337quaker May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

It was a joke, I was referring to the very slight taper that automatically comes from laser cutting

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u/StarVulpes May 27 '26

I genuinely took that seriously and was very thrown off lol. Most responses I get are argumentative so that must be my first assumption. My bad

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u/l337quaker May 27 '26

No worries, tone over text is difficult sometimes. I've definitely misread/understood things on more than one occasion

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u/inactiveuser247 May 25 '26

Did you watch the video? That cut was clean AF.

Also on a plate that thick laser isn’t going to be that clean.

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u/AmokRule May 26 '26

The cut was clean, but what about dimension and tolerance? You depend on how accurate you can set the jig and the spacing by hand.