CNC (Lasers, Routers, Etc)
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Kolohe
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That was my biggest worry with them, but I have only cut out 2 of each so far. I won't really know if they're too annoying until I play a game with them.
I did think about using multi colored acrylic also, but acrylic is just....ugly. may still try it out
Acrylic chips could be kind of interesting, but cutting that many would drive me up the wall. An 8" external fan running at max speed to vent the shit out still isn't enough to keep the nasty smell from permeating the entire floor of my house. How people stand that smell working in a salon all day is beyond me
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Kolohe
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I have this setup in a garage with an external in-line fan, along with the built in one. I actually don't get any smell during cutting now, but still stinks when I take it out. I'm spraying paint in there all the time anyways, so I usually have the garage door open
I like the overall design of it, but not the DD in the 00's part. Cool idea to lightly engrave the heart/diamond & dark engrave the spade/club, if that works out and doesn't look really faint in comparison, might only work on a few types of wood that are naturally light
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I meant doing this, to me the D D parts of the zero's make it look like it has weird eyes in it but hard to say if that makes the finished result any better or not. Might also try to find a way to reduce the size slightly so you can see both extruding curves on the Spade
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Kolohe
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My coworker ordered a set of these coasters off of etsy for her sister. She was going to get a set for her whole family, but she said she didn't really like the weird outlines and they were kind of expensive.
She saw one of my topo maps at work and asked if I could try making some of 5 mountains and 3 islands for 5 of her family members. Just came up with the first design and test engrave today and I'm pretty happy with it. It was pretty quick to make too, so I should be able to finish the rest tomorrow. Not sure what the best long term coating for a coaster is though. Polyurethane?
She saw one of my topo maps at work and asked if I could try making some of 5 mountains and 3 islands for 5 of her family members. Just came up with the first design and test engrave today and I'm pretty happy with it. It was pretty quick to make too, so I should be able to finish the rest tomorrow. Not sure what the best long term coating for a coaster is though. Polyurethane?
Same sealer you put on a deck would be my guess? I haven't made anything that is exposed to moisture on purpose so I'm not really sure. Wouldn't be hard to mix up a thin epoxy layer either
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Kolohe
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I thought about epoxy, but I'm not sure how I would actually seal it without gluing it to something else. It's 1/8" plywood. How do I coat it with epoxy without it running down onto anything else? I can't do a tape skirt on 1/8" wood. Put it on a wooden dowel over the trash can and just let it drip off the top?
If you are only doing a real thin coat I'd just drip a little in the middle and use a brayer (think thats its name?) to smooth out each way. Unless you overdid it, should be very little drippage over the edge if any. Wouldn't even worry about the trash part, put it on wax paper and it won't stick to it at all, if you have a sanding drum or useful jig setup to smoth out the edges.
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You mean you like the inner contour map for the Hawaii ones, but not the outer ring on the Hawaii ones? Or do you mean you don't like the mountain coasters?
jooka
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I was only referring to the island ones. I like the inner contour map of the Island of Hawaii but the other islands need to be more zoomed out or something. I'd also have the outer flower ring not be behind the text. So keep the flowers just don't have it under the text areas.
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I spent more time on the contours of the other 2 islands than all the others combined. That's just a really rough spot to generate them because there's so many ridges and valleys through there. All of these maps are at a 500ft interval for vertical. The islands all have different scales, but the mountains are all a 5 mile buffer around the peak.
I still don't know what you're recommending for the border of the hawaii ones though. You like the flowers, but don't like it UNDER the text? assuming you're saying to move the text out of that band entirely?
