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Post by gregory on Dec 20, 2013 10:22:02 GMT -8
do you have any cabinet shops in your area, most use controlled dry wood, like our shop. I have trouble understanding the carving process right now, but i never have trouble with the wood.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2013 12:59:34 GMT -8
Plenty of Amish cabinet shops in a small town about 10 miles away, now whether or not they'd sell wood to someone off the street is unknown. Might be worth the effort to find out.
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Post by Greg on Dec 22, 2013 0:25:06 GMT -8
Maybe try riding a horse there might work LOL!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2013 8:54:55 GMT -8
No Greg,.. he would need "der black buggy"  I've been in northern Indiana on gravel roads that only have buggy tracks in 'em and there is no electric lines coming off the power poles going to the houses. |
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Post by gregory on Dec 22, 2013 12:44:07 GMT -8
i use scrap cabinet plywood for test cutting, does anyone know if this can cause problem, i know it's (plywood) not good to burn in a wood stove, because of the glue, but didn't know if cutting plywood can mess up a bit.
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Post by Greg on Dec 22, 2013 15:56:49 GMT -8
well anything that has a lot o gum in it but its not that much difference, when I first started I had a lot of small chunks of ply wood so I used them for cuts and you can make some really interesting stuff at around .248 depth because the dark stuff inside shows through.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 5:44:16 GMT -8
The Menards and Meijers and Walmart a mile from my house all have hitching rails for buggies in the parking lot, guess I could catch a ride - need to work on my beard though.
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Post by gregory on Dec 24, 2013 13:25:30 GMT -8
OK Ok Amish are not the only cabinet builder in these here parts, boy I can't take you guys anywhere. LOL a lot
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Post by Greg on Dec 25, 2013 0:14:22 GMT -8
I bought a new printer a short while back and its wireless and has a scanner built in that will convert a scan to jpeg and send it to my laptop, did that with a coloring book page.
Next I used wintopo to trace it into a dxf file then I loaded it to cut2d and told it to join all the short lines.
To make the story short I have an exact copy cut in wood now.
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Post by gregory on Dec 25, 2013 10:13:59 GMT -8
I am about to do the same thing, I found a light house on a date book calendar that i ready like, I believe I can get the carving I want by scanning it with my printer and converting it with Artcam
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Post by Greg on Dec 26, 2013 9:47:34 GMT -8
The first thing I found was that stuff on the back side of the page bleed through in the scan so I placed a dark blue sheet above the page and that fixed that problem.
The next thing I found was after vectorizing the photo a lot of lines were not joined and the normal setting to join vectors was .0004 less than 1/2 a thousand! that did not work so I lept removing zeros until I got to .04 and that fixed the picture, removed a lot of unneeded lines and really cleaned it up.
After that it was a simple setup in cut2d and save to g code.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all.
Greg
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I've been in northern Indiana on gravel roads that only have buggy tracks in 'em and there is no electric lines coming off the power poles going to the houses.