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.
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?
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”? Easy peasy, right? lol
Ha! Yep... just like falling off a log! 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.
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.
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?)