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Thanks to those hard working Amazon drivers working on Memorial Day I received my 1/32" tbn bit. The results were as good as anything I've done with an engraving bit (maybe better) but it only took 1/4th the time. I'm finished using engraving bits.This 4" x 4" took less than 2 hours to carve.

I've used 1/4" engraving bits had results not quite as good as the 1/8" engraving bits. My hunch is the ball tip will be able to carve a vertical line to a certain depth while an engraving bit is limited to the angle of the bit. I think that geometry may be more of an important factor than tip diame...

1/4" shank 1/32 TBN.

Wow, that's impressive! Now I'm convinced I've been wasting a lot of time and bits. It would take me at least 24 hours to carve an 8 X 10 with a 1/8" shank engraving bit. Any faster and the bit would break. The kicker is, it looks like you're getting much better results than me. This is the last on ...

I may have to do a test by carving the same image with an engraving bit and tapered ball tip. My theory was an engraving bit will give me better detail, but a 1/32" tapered ball tip should give me better definition lines between dark and light areas. It's a trade off but I'm thinking I may have been...

It was candlestone. Thanks! It doesn't seem available when I do an online search. Has anyone seen a source for this.

I'm very interested in your color technique! I have been making black and white epoxy filled lithopanes basically using the first part of your system and have had some pretty good results. I'm going to give your method a try when I have some time. Here's a couple of my B & W engravings. The attached...

Thanks for the useful info! The material I had been using was much softer than countertops. I've found I get much better resolution with a 1/8" engraving bit but unfortunately, a 1/8" bit won't stand a chance with something as dense as Corian. Do you know of any softer material that's opaque, white ...

A few years ago I purchased online some sheets of 8" X10" X.25" material for carving lithopanes. It was a composite material that is much easier to cut than Corian. I ran out and now I cant find anyone selling it. Does anyone have any ideas of where I can get something similar?

Wow!!! Someone else besides me has a Frank Zappa/epoxy affliction. Maybe we should start a support group before we wind up working on the assembly line at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. Nice work! Here's a couple of mine: https://thestuffimade.com/product/zappa-1/ https://thestuffimade.com/pro...

I found an easy way to calibrate the tint in the epoxy for a pretty good contrast. First I cut a diagonal groove about 1/2" x 3" into scrap wood with one end a little deeper than the carving and gradually rising so the other end is at the top surface of the wood. Then mark the spot outside the groov...

Wow! The only way I have been able to get any decent gray scale in images is by converting them to a halftone. Without doing that I get black and white and very little in between. The detail in the shading of the roof on the second house and in the face is something I haven't been able to achieve wi...

Very impressive! Was that an unedited photo or did you have to do some Photoshop magic to get that result?

Stevelod
Madison, WI
53704

I should have mentioned that I stained the carving white before I poured the epoxy on the image I posted. All the others I did were on bare wood. All the engravings on the website were done on hard maple which I've found works well. It's very dense with a tight grain so I get good engraving resoluti...