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Originally Posted by fishinfusion I'd like to have one of these machines if they can do quality lettering.
Could someone who has a Carvewrite check this website and see if this quality of work can be done? The company is P. Graham Dunn and they use industrial CNC router machines to do inspirational work in wood. Thanks in advance.
Here's their website:
pgrahamdunn(DOT)com
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I just had some lettering done by a friend, on his machine.
This is what I did and learned:
I hand drew the letters "Tyler" on paper, scanned it, edited it making the letters solid. I specifically created BMP files so that spurious pixels would NOT be present... only those of MY content.
It would have been better if I had left the editing out making them solid and just using a pencil to SHADE the letters being light around the edges and darker in the middle. Then, the carving would have been gradual in dept getting deeper going to the middle of the letters... As it happened, there was a steep 90* angle from the top to bottom (depth) of each letter.
I also typed some text... the first time, the letters were too close together (just normal spacing), too deep, and chip-out was a problem between letters.
I retyped it inserting 2 spaces between letters and 4 spaces between words. It turned out better.
See my Show-N-Tell project Tool Tote...
http://www.routerforums.com/show-n-t...tice-book.html
The first board, with lettering all over it, was the first test... followed by the 2nd test... which we went with. The lines, for the letters, are about 1/16" in width and 1/16" deep.
It's possible to get good quality... BUT, you must fake it out a bit with more spacing here & there...
I'm going to try filling my carved letters with epoxy so they will not Chip-out over the years. I will use the Test board first, to make sure I like it, etc.