[image] Guys, My wife has asked me to make some egg trays for family but I am struggling to come up with a good way to do this - especially how to get egg shaped holes in a bit of wood. Can someone please suggest a route to do this? Thanks!

Here is one approach [image] Egg Tray by HomeMade Modern an egg tray made from corian. [F82089FF-E8CB-4237-96A7-872E812CC5AC-1971-000003F9580C6A55]

If you want contours, you’ll need to use some 3D software to create the contours and then 3D carve them with a ball end. The one that Zach posted would just require a cutout with a size smaller than the egg so it holds it up. It’s a different take than the traditional egg tray.

@IanMcfetridge Hey there to achieve the dished look in the top depending on how wide and deep they are you can use a form tool I would go with a core box tool [image] in my current understanding of easel it would be a little hard to program and drilling cycle but thats what you need to do bas…

That’s a 1/2” shank tool which doesn’t fit on most Xcarves. You could use a bowl bit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000K2ADLY You can pocket with it, I think, and get the shape.

@JustinBusby That is not a 1/2" shank tool !! [image] also please note that I said depending on your size needed

Thanks guys, I was kind of hoping I could do a roughing cut stepped at decreasing radii and then a smoothing cut with a ball end cutter to smooth out the steps. I think I was naive in hoping that I could do a spiral cut to do the smoothing. I have seen and tried a fluting path in VCarve Pro which ki…

oh yeah well if you have v-carve pro then i would defiantly do what your talking about with the roughing and finishing pass

You can manipulate the dome shapes included in Vcarve to get the effect you want. Then do a 3D roughing then a 3D finishing pass.

Couldn’t you model an egg-shaped contour in gray scale, then arrange the array and cutout with tabs and generate gcode from that?

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Zach_Kaplan October 28, 2017, 1:28pm 4

If you don’t have any CAD experience you could try Tinkercad and then use Kiri Moto or Meshmixer to make the gcode. Then you could import the gcode into Easel.

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