Kev Williams
08-08-2014, 1:02 AM
From the "actual engraving" files ;) ...
Been doing a lot of guns lately, this is my favorite (mostly because I don't usually get to see the finished product!)
A guy dropped off a slide and a piece of paper, "I need these put on each side of the slide, I'm building this for one of the first responders, a fireman..."
Cool! The paper appears to be a copied photo of a hand drawing.
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I pretty much had to hand-digitize the drawing, but not much to it. I found a little different 'Liberty online to work with.
After the digitizing comes the white-knuckle part...
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Pics my customer sent me of the finished firearm--
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Here's a job that's not for everyone-- engraving 4" tall letters into 304 stainless, .012" deep, .180" wide cutter and no depth gauge. Each letter takes 10-15 minutes and pretty much totals the tool's cutting edge. Slow, noisy and messy. But that's one of the benefits of putting the IS7000 out in the garage, I can start the machine, shut the door and go work on something else and not have to hear it! :)
These are 18" x 30" door kicks, for a sheet metal shop. Their customer (I won't name names ;) ) didn't want painted letters, only engraved. I was a bit worried since some folks are put off by the tooling marks, but I was told they just loved 'em! -which is good, because they're not going to be cheap! (but somehow, I think they can afford it...)
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And finally, after owning my Triumph for 8 months, I finally decided to see if I could tone it down enough to engrave laminate. Full speed and 12 power did the trick, the results are much better than I expected! It's now busy etching a bunch of small tags in 1/8" Rowmark. I'd put a pic up, but the board just told me my limit is 8! Oh well...
Been doing a lot of guns lately, this is my favorite (mostly because I don't usually get to see the finished product!)
A guy dropped off a slide and a piece of paper, "I need these put on each side of the slide, I'm building this for one of the first responders, a fireman..."
Cool! The paper appears to be a copied photo of a hand drawing.
294419294420
I pretty much had to hand-digitize the drawing, but not much to it. I found a little different 'Liberty online to work with.
After the digitizing comes the white-knuckle part...
294421294422
Pics my customer sent me of the finished firearm--
294423294424
=======================
Here's a job that's not for everyone-- engraving 4" tall letters into 304 stainless, .012" deep, .180" wide cutter and no depth gauge. Each letter takes 10-15 minutes and pretty much totals the tool's cutting edge. Slow, noisy and messy. But that's one of the benefits of putting the IS7000 out in the garage, I can start the machine, shut the door and go work on something else and not have to hear it! :)
These are 18" x 30" door kicks, for a sheet metal shop. Their customer (I won't name names ;) ) didn't want painted letters, only engraved. I was a bit worried since some folks are put off by the tooling marks, but I was told they just loved 'em! -which is good, because they're not going to be cheap! (but somehow, I think they can afford it...)
294426294427
And finally, after owning my Triumph for 8 months, I finally decided to see if I could tone it down enough to engrave laminate. Full speed and 12 power did the trick, the results are much better than I expected! It's now busy etching a bunch of small tags in 1/8" Rowmark. I'd put a pic up, but the board just told me my limit is 8! Oh well...