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    Help with Engraving

    I normally hang out in the tuners forum, but now I have a question for the engravers.

    I turn a lot of travel mugs like those pictured below. I have been lucky enough to sell quite a few and recently customers have asked about engraving names and or logos on the mugs. I stopped at a local trophy shop and they don't do much wood, especially curved wood.

    My question to this forum is - what are my options? What kind of local shop might do this? What format would the logs need to be in?

    Thanks in advance.
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    The rotary attachment that comes with some lasers can do these well.
    Logos should be in a vector format - preferrably in Coreldraw as most ppl doing lasering use it - but corel imports a lot of other file formats too. You can also use a bitmap , providing its in a high resolution. Even less than stellar bitmaps would give quite good results here as the engraving wont be big in most cases. Speak to the guy who is gonna do the work for you to get his preference on format.
    Rodney Gold, Toker Bros trophies, Cape Town , South Africa :
    Roland 2300 rotary . 3 x ISEL's ..1m x 500mm CnC .
    Tekcel 1200x2400 router , 900 x 600 60w Shenui laser , 1200 x 800 80w Reci tube Shenhui Laser
    6 x longtai lasers 400x600 60w , 1 x longtai 20w fiber
    2x Gravo manual engravers , Roland 540 large format printer/cutter. CLTT setup
    1600mm hot and cold laminator , 3x Dopag resin dispensers , sandblasting setup, acid etcher

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    I've done them, and like Rodne says, ask the engraver what format he'd
    like and give him the highest resolution you can if it's a bitmap.
    I've done them from jpegs, tif files . .and they can look just fine, but it
    depends on the nut behind the wheel. If they know what to do with the
    file and you start with a good enough image, raster images can look great.

    ps .. I like your cherry mug better than mine. Your staves didn't fly off
    in all directions.
    Last edited by Chuck Stone; 05-19-2010 at 11:30 AM.

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