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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Lithopane
« on: November 08, 2008, 09:12:58 PM »
When you said it was a time honored family tradition, you weren't kidding, were you! It goes waaaaaay back!
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Looking at the wear on some older machines that never had a power kneeMost likely because of the manual labor that is involved in cranking those tables, they only get used when absolutely necessary. That's how it is in my case anyhow, but I'm a bit on the lazy side.
seems to indicate that this is indeed the case.
If the strings are to long, turn the feedrate up, or turn the spindle speed down.OR lower the peck.
I don't think this will be very easy to do, the way you want to do itHehe.... I don't think it will be easy ANY way you do it
travels across all of the doorsAhhh... A mural, or landscape. Now you have to share pictures of your projects! We would love to see some!
the door sizes are all different, and larger than what you can run through a scannerThe size of the final product is usually of no concern with respect to the size of the drawn pattern. You can scale the drawing to any desirable size. You could draw an eagle the size of a quarter dollar, and cut it on the machine as big as the machine capacity. If you feel that you make your designs best at full size so you can have a real life visual reference, well then I totally understand that. You could draw the whole cabinet system in 3D, but I understand that a computer model is not the same as a physical model. It is a barrier that we all have to overcome in some form or fashion to really tap into the designs in our head.
raster to vector software "sucks" and i don't care who makes it and how much you spendI agree with Rich.
I will make the inlays myself on a bandsawWhy are you choosing to do this by hand? If your reasoning is "because the veneer is thin"....Thin parts can be cut by sandwiching between two pieces of thicker material. "spoil boards" or "sacrificial boards" are a common reference for them.
the Times New Roman font used in the summary is distracting. Would you match fonts used in the screens please?