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I'll get a pic of it tomorrow, it's an 8" bar with carbide tip, 3/4 in dia. I took 3/16"to 1/4" at a time till the last pass which was only about .020- .035 of an inch. No clean up needed on the wood it's smooth as a baby's butt. This was done on a Bridgeport Milling machine, tool deflection is zero when cutting this wood even with the 8" bar. Each revolution of the bar would mean .006 of an inch downward travel causing a smooth finish. This wood is one of the hardest at a scale of 1400 compared to say pine of about 400 on the wood hardness chart. If I was using Pine, there would have issues trying to hold it tight without damage by either wood deflection or vise crushing it trying to hold it. The vacuum did its clean up all around the Mill if that's the cleanup you mean, there was plenty of that!