I forgot to put in details how the dial was made and to show an example of the end result. Here is a dial with the gnomon mounted. Materia...

Did you have a look at normal wrist-watches using roman numbers? It actually is common to do it "wrong" for dials because of symmetries. You can find ...

One more ... In the end the big endmills make the problem more visible, than a smaller endmill would do. Again, thanks for the advise. The wa...

You don't tell us which size your work-piece and which diameter your planing tool had, but I think "just feel" is the problem. ;o) The object in the ...

I promised to publish some pictures. Have al look at

@Reiner St. I do not have a T-groove table base (yet). On top of the HPL base I have an MDF plate (499 x 314 x 20mm, max size for the 420) with doub...

I think I've seen an engraving bit with a spring loaded tip. That would solve some of the problems.

@voiliceo That does not make sense to me for glass. The surface is (locally) polished, ignoring bumbs and bends in the surface. Leveling it will deman...

@Reinard St. Thanks for the welcome, it feels like I have made contact with the forum. 🙂 Good tip about the WinPC-USB to save it in a new conf...