Agreed, great looking work
Agreed, great looking work
Robert, nice work on the sign. It doesn't get any easier then painting VCarved text and graphics on solid surface plaques. I have also used gold leaf on a few solid surface plaques that looked great.
Mark, Your sign is made from clear acrylic, or am I missing something. It looks like you CNC cut flat depth and paint filled then sanded the surface. I have been playing with a surface polisher using a foam pad and polishing compound recently. Honestly I have not given any thought to using this technique on clear acrylic but your pictures have me thinking about it. I have lots of half inch thick clear acrylic in my inventory so I think I will see what kinds of results I can get VCarving.
Keith,
Those are in 1/2" thick 3form Chroma. Comes in tons of different colors and with or without diffusion layer. (basically a semi opaque backing layer so you dont see through the material). The logo is flat bottom with 1/16" endmill final pass, 1/8" hogging at .1" deep then infilled with color matched integra seaming adhesive (same material you seam solid surface with, 250ml dual cartridge, but color matched to the logo). I put a full sheet on the CNC, mill all the logos, infill them all leaving them a bit high. Once cured fly gut them to as close to flush as possible (thou or two) then sanded flush. I have since made a bracket assembly the bolts to the side of the spindle and holds a 6" AirVantage random orbit so I can sand on the CNC as well. After they are all sanded/polished the holes for the LED standoffs are cut and they are cut-out tab'd.
Last edited by Mark Bolton; 10-13-2021 at 12:18 PM.