Would anyone trained on the multicam be willing to cut a few designs for me tonight, or early this week in the evening? I’m looking to have text cut on to a paddle and a mono-color converted logo carved into the obverse.
The logo:
I have a .png that’s been converted to black and red (from the original black and gold gradient), and am willing to get the text set up in the format needed for the multicam to make it as close to plug-and-cut as possible, if you’ll let me know what format it needs to be. I’m also willing to chip in beer or a few bucks for your time.
Thanks for your consideration!
I should probably clarify, also, that I don’t need the text to be anything fancy. It’ll be a couple of words, at most, and I just need them in a simple sans-serif font.
A few things to consider:
Material/Stock: You mentioned a paddle. If you’re wanting to cut it out on some sort of existing paddle, securing that down for cutting would be tricky etc. If it’s not essentially a flat piece of wood, you would have to come up with a jig most likely to secure it. If it’s flat wood, you’d have to pick a wood and possibly joint some boards together etc.
Double Sided Operation: I’ve never actually done a two sided piece yet, but I have an idea how I’d do it. Assuming it’s flat board stock, I’d drill some holes on the first side all the way thru, outside of the area you plan to cut it out. Then when you flip it, take extra care aligning those holes in relation to how it’s rotated on the table (jogging X/Y and checking).
Design: Your design technically has 3 colors in it (black, red, and “background”). A plan of attack might be “vcarve out the black areas” I don’t think you want to cut out exactly on the shapes either (don’t think it’d be rigid enough etc.) and possibly also cut out a circular shape around the main shape?
If we vcarve out the black areas in the design, it would look kinda like this (simulation isn’t high enough resolution to get a true feel, just an idea):
You could get more contrast by staining etc.If you wanted even more contrast, you could use a material like Rodney uses on some of his arcade cabinets (MDF covered with thin veneer of black phenolic/platic type material), it would like this:
PS> Writing this reply took longer than generating the previews attached and therefore creating the G-code involved.
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Okay. I was actually hoping to mill out the red, and leave the black and background so I could “foil” paint the depressed sections. I hadn’t thought about the jig issue, and the paddles are pre-made of something almost, but slightly harder than, balsa (purchased at Michael’s).
I may end up doing a vinyl cut and using that to just paint the logo in with the foil paint and sealing the entire thing.
Thanks,
DV
If you want, reply with a link to the paddles if you can find them online etc. It’d give an idea how complicated the jig might be.
Vcarving out the red would look like this:
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