Just A Little Machine Work! Updated!

I'll go to work on it... but of course, for you it will be upside down!! Tongue Out

Dan.

Hey Rufus... "Usually". A customer in Kentucky sent a sketch of some historic house and I managed. Signatures are generally not too hard but they have to be in jet black ink ...like a roller ball pen and on white paper. I have to scan those at 1200 DPI... 1:1 and go from there. Sometimes a really good .jpg of a signature is good to start from as well... better in some cases than a scan. It does have to be looking straight down on the signature. The rest of the process is the same. Dan.

I think he does his best work standing on his head. Or maybe it just looks that way from my perspective.

The only time I’ve ever been the right way up to you guys is in the gutter. :wink:

What would we do without our Aussie to pick on? I guess that being upside backards is what makes that knurling look so good!

Dan.

Dan. You have not seen my knurling close up. Trick photography is an art form I’ll always be getting better at. What light are you building for the OL comp?

We got lotsa Canadians we can molest… J)

so, easy you said?! I think I understood what you said though, possibly :slight_smile:

That 3D lizard sounds awesome, wish you’d taken video of that process! When I first learned of your 4 axis 3D capability, I had a thought similar to that…the creature curled around the body. Bet it’s amazing! Wonder if you could do it in Titanium and then anodize the different parts different colors with a sponge ano to make it look “live”? :slight_smile: Easy peasy, right? lol

I'll do a video of the software process... I need to do one anyway. All that is hard to keep straight. Tongue Out It's a pleasure to share the work.

Dan.

Ha! Yep... just like falling off a log! Tongue Out Ti is so easy to anodize that you can do about anything with it. Cutting it is a good chore in Ti but certainly doable. Anything is possible.... so they say!! Ha! Whoever "They" is!

Dan.

Edit... I forgot!! ... I have another light coming up that the customer wants the body to look like dice turned all different directions. I'll try to video that one. The videos slow the process to a crawl on these big lights. I have however been looking at just doing a video stream and let it all happen as it may. I think folks would enjoy that. ?? We are looking at streaming perhaps the whole shop process so that customers can see their lights, and others being built. Dan.

Ha! I kinda doubt that's a trick...the photography anyway. Anyone that can knurl like that certainly knows SOME tricks!! Ha! Wink

Don't know about the contest. I'm behind right now and trying to catch up so I can play. What are you building??

Dan.

The pressures on Dan. No excuses.
Which brings us to the question,
What do you call a deer with no eyes? No eye deer.
What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs? Still no eye deer.
What do you call a deer with no eyes, no legs and No reproductive thing? Still no (naughty word) eye deer.
That is the light I am making. :frowning:

Lol, maybe you need to make a DeerLight.

Steve, You really gotta quit drinking that stuff..... or perhaps drink more! Tongue Out

Dan.

I added a video link to the OP for those that asked to see the software process of setting up the engraving on the Mini-Mag.

Here it is again.... Enjoy! Dan.

http://youtu.be/EaQAmMmMh20

Awesome work Dan. :wink: Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing. :slight_smile:

You just made that look easy! But there must be a way to mess up, and I’d find it and probably invent a few more as I did so. :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks Dan, very nice. Appreciate that…

I have seen (and have in my hand right now) a sample of your knurling, and I can assure you that it’s insanely good. Trick photography wouldn’t make a difference.

And while I’m at the compliments, the vid was great, Dan. Anything else you want to share would be appreciated. (Machining pron! Who knew it would catch on?)

I don’t recall sending you a light Mr ruffles. I’d suggest that you may be looking at someone else’s work if it looks good. I’m confused yet again. :~