Iron blank recut
Cavity or muscle, 304 or 17-4. We map the existing land, then recut the hitting window so the set agrees with itself instead of with a catalog year.
Olive Street · Cascades CNC mill
A face is a toolpath, not a stamp
Mill Face recuts the hitting surface. Grooves, land, and roughness leave this gantry as numbers, not as a brochure photo. When Willamette rain packs those grooves with rye, spin dies unless the edge is still an edge. We mill that edge. We do not clamp a head in loft jaws and call the stamp honest.
What the cutter actually leaves
Ra 1.4–2.2Iron window we write
0.08 mmGroove edge we chase
0.35 mmTypical stepover on 17-4
97401 weather
Rain is a grinding paste, not atmosphere
From October through May the Willamette floor does not merely look wet. It smears. Fine rye and sand pack the groove like lapping compound. A factory edge that looked sharp on a dry mat in January is a round wire by March. Spin numbers from an indoor bay then lie about what the same 52° will do on a soaked Laurelwood collar.
We mill for that paste. Sharper lands, a written Ra, and a groove wall that still has a corner after a winter of Pacific load. If you want a head bent two degrees strong, that is a different shop and a different machine. The gantry on Olive Street cuts faces.
Cuts we take
Five blanks, one bed
What this shop is not
No jaws. No stamp argument. No loft theater.
Allentown-style loft machines and Columbus carry bays do useful work. They are not this room. If a 7-iron is flying as a 6 because someone bent it, we will tell you and send you to a bending bench. We will not fake that correction on a face mill.
“The cutter does not care what the cavity says. It cares what the flute is doing at 4,800 rpm.”
Keiko Maru · CAM and vise
Suite 6
Hold a vise hour, not a catalog
Monday through Saturday the gantry runs 10:00 to 5:00. Sunday the coolant sits. Write mill@millface.space or send the queue form. Nothing is locked until a machinist answers with a slot you can take or move.