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General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) => Topic started by: budman68 on September 14, 2010, 08:50:34 PM

Title: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: budman68 on September 14, 2010, 08:50:34 PM: Some future Xmas gifts for a few friends made from Corian. They're both 1/4 thick and about 5-6" in length.

I never get tired of playing with this material, it's just so nice to work with.

Thanks for such a great piece of software.....
Dave
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: RICH on September 14, 2010, 09:02:38 PM: Dave,
There is no need for you to spend so much time and effort on my gifts. ;)
A couple of grand, just like last year, would be appreciated just the same. >:D

RICH
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: Sam on September 14, 2010, 11:35:00 PM: Wow, Dave. Those look incredible. The way you put the names on the Harley piece is really creative and unique. Love 'em!
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: Overloaded on September 14, 2010, 11:43:04 PM: They look real nice Dave.
Good work. Looks like Vectric VCP ? ? ?
Your photographic skills are impressive as well !
Thanks for the post,
Russ
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on September 15, 2010, 02:55:02 AM: Excellent work Dave. I would like to see more of this.

Tweakie.
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: budman68 on September 15, 2010, 11:05:02 AM: Rich: You shouldn't have said anything, I was going to double it this year ;)

Sam: thank you, I kind of thought the original 100th anniversary logo was a bit dated :D

Russ: correct, VCarve Pro it is. I can nver say enough great things about this software. Just a pleasure to use.

Tweaks: I would as well, my friend, wish I had more "free" time. I consider myself very lucky though as the economy is said to be so bad here, but we've been very staedy (knockin' on wood!!!).

Thanks fellas,
Dave
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: JHChoppers on September 15, 2010, 11:42:04 AM: Dave,

Looks great ! What tooling are you using for that, RPMs, speeds ?

Details please,

JH
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: budman68 on September 15, 2010, 01:08:38 PM: Thanks JH, I'm using a Centurion solid carbide 1/2" 45 deg. V-bit for the Harley and a CMT 60 Deg. (wood style router bit) V-Bit for the Angel, just to see how things went. They both ran VERY nicely as I'd hoped because doing small engraving with poor quality V Bits can give bad results in the letter profiles. These come right to a point so details are not a problem.

I'm still new at Corian so keep that in mind when I give you the speeds and feeds. I didn't use a wood router, I have a Taig mill will the stock motor that goes up to just about 11,000 RPM's. I'm going at 10 IPM's and could easily go faster if I decided to rig up a little Bosch Colt to the headstock instead of the stock spindle. Kind of a lot of work if I'm not going into production on these, athough it would probably yeild really nice results with the higher RPM's.

Thanks,
Dave
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: JHChoppers on September 15, 2010, 02:17:03 PM: Dave,

Thanks for the info!

Where do you get the material from ? Home Depot or something ?

Its just looks great!!!! I would love to try for myself sometime.

Thanks,
JH
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: budman68 on September 15, 2010, 02:41:11 PM: Actually you can't buy something like this at HD or Lowes, as I wish we could!

I got it off a guy on ebay, but also look for another name like Pionite

Dave
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: Chris.Botha on September 18, 2010, 07:34:10 AM: cool stuff Dave!
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: budman68 on September 18, 2010, 07:38:11 AM: Thank you sir! ;)

Dave
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: Arbo on September 23, 2010, 10:14:05 PM: I have cut corian for lithophanes, but I'm curious as to how you got the cut out areas dark.
Title: Re: Couple of simple gifts...
Post by: budman68 on September 24, 2010, 05:12:34 AM: Quote from: Arbo on September 23, 2010, 10:14:05 PM
I have cut corian for lithophanes, but I'm curious as to how you got the cut out areas dark.

Hello Arbo, just painted filled the cut areas and leveled and surface the top to clean them up ;)

Dave