Leo Voisine
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I have not done this in a while.
I was asked to make a sign locally - so I jus thought I would post progress on this project.
This project has a time frame I need to meet, so I will be pretty diligent with it. I need to finish it before the customer moves back to Colorado.
In addition to "making" the plaque, I am also practicing my salesmanship skills, which is part of my interest. I will refrain from calling this a hobby business venture, but here we are. I also have some craft fair activities going on this weekend as well as at the start of some structural work on my house and entertaining the grandkids. It's a REALLY bust weekend.
So with no further ado.
I start a project with design conceptualization.
This is some communication with the customer about their desires and expectations.
Usually that don't really know what they want or what size or what price.
It takes me about a half hour to get past most of the confusion, past the money, and into a broad concept.
Shown above is the final and 3-rd rendition of the plaque.
Is was decided, at my recommendation to use HDU. Best choice for this sort of project
I will use 2 square feet. 24" wide and 12" tall and 1" thick.
BTW - this project is within the possibilities of Vectric Desktop V-Carve.
This is the material blank.
I already had this in my inventory
It is 24" wide and 96" long.
I just mounted it on the machine and setup my programming zero in center of the sign
First process was to pocket the area shown
Uses 1/4 end mill for the large clearance - 375IPM, 8,000 RPM, 1/2 DOC - 10 minutes
Uses 1/8 end mill for the small areas - 375 IPM, 8,000 RPM, .06 DOC - 90 minutes
On the 1/8 end mill, I should have been at least .250 on DOC - that would have cut in half or better.
Ohh well - next time
Right now the machine is running - making the trees. Elapsed time is 2:11 and about 40% completed.
I was asked to make a sign locally - so I jus thought I would post progress on this project.
This project has a time frame I need to meet, so I will be pretty diligent with it. I need to finish it before the customer moves back to Colorado.
In addition to "making" the plaque, I am also practicing my salesmanship skills, which is part of my interest. I will refrain from calling this a hobby business venture, but here we are. I also have some craft fair activities going on this weekend as well as at the start of some structural work on my house and entertaining the grandkids. It's a REALLY bust weekend.
So with no further ado.
I start a project with design conceptualization.
This is some communication with the customer about their desires and expectations.
Usually that don't really know what they want or what size or what price.
It takes me about a half hour to get past most of the confusion, past the money, and into a broad concept.
Shown above is the final and 3-rd rendition of the plaque.
Is was decided, at my recommendation to use HDU. Best choice for this sort of project
I will use 2 square feet. 24" wide and 12" tall and 1" thick.
BTW - this project is within the possibilities of Vectric Desktop V-Carve.
This is the material blank.
I already had this in my inventory
It is 24" wide and 96" long.
I just mounted it on the machine and setup my programming zero in center of the sign
First process was to pocket the area shown
Uses 1/4 end mill for the large clearance - 375IPM, 8,000 RPM, 1/2 DOC - 10 minutes
Uses 1/8 end mill for the small areas - 375 IPM, 8,000 RPM, .06 DOC - 90 minutes
On the 1/8 end mill, I should have been at least .250 on DOC - that would have cut in half or better.
Ohh well - next time
Right now the machine is running - making the trees. Elapsed time is 2:11 and about 40% completed.