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Beautiful work as always Jim!!

George, Thank you for your comments. I apologize for the late reply. I haven't been on the forum as often lately. I used a 1/4" 2 flute end mill at about 26-30 IPM and .125 depth of cut. Spindle speed was around 6500 RPM. This cutter wasn't TIN coated and tended to scream a bit at higher rpms. Incre...

So I decided to try a litho on our Fadal under flood coolant. I followed along with the tutorials and User Group instructions. Since I do not have a ball endmill I used the 1/4" 60 degree onsrud V bit that I have on hand. The finish pass rastered at 315 deg and cut perfect. The machined surface is a...

Thanks Dale. I will certainly use that info.
i will use the v bit to do my first ones and get me a ball nose on order.
my first ones will be on a CNC mill with flood coolant so that should help.

Thanks again
Kelly

Good Morning. I am about to try my hand at a Lithophane. A far cry from the aluminum that I normally machine. I have a piece of Spartech Polycast 1/4" cast acrylic that will be my test material. I am open for any suggestions on machining a litho in acrylic. I followed along with the User group train...

Wow, that is some fantastic work there.
Kelly

Now, thats some cool stuff right there!!!

Kelly

Thank you again for the comments. It is very humbling considering the level of creativity and skill that I see here as I browse through everyones projects. Timvmax--I try to take care of people when I can. As a supervisor it doesnt allow me much time to do so.. Most of the time it helps me to have s...

Thank you all for the comments. They are certainly appreciated. Kent, One of my next projects will be to make a lazy susan designed to look like the end of then A10 Gatlin gun. It will hold 7 shot glasses made from spent 30mm casings. Behind it will be a 12"-ish section of the barrel breach with a c...

I finished the plaque today. It is apprx. 12.5 tall and 15. Long. The aluminum is 1/2" thick and inlaid .200 into a piece of Walnut. As a metal worker by trade and not much of a woodworker, it is nice to mix it up a bit. I love the look of the brushed/satin finish aluminum against the wood. Original...

Jim,
Michael Tyler uses the same wheels.. I have the same type grinder which works great.
Ive been wanting to try the wheels myself. I guess I should break down and order some.
Thanks for the info sir.. Keep up the awesome work!!

Thank you all very much.. It means alot.

Kelly

Aluminum plaque continued.. I glass media basted the plaque and regrained it on our regrainer (stroke sander). Next was to masked the areas and sprayed the paint. Today I sanded the excess paint off and here you can see the coins temp laying in place. Monday I will cut the mohagany to inlay the plaq...

Thanks Mike. As im sure you know now.. its fun to get away from the industrial side when you can and make something more creative. I enjoy the aircraft(Air Force) and tooling side of things but you get to have a little fun with projects like this. I dont get too much time to do things like this but ...

Fantastic work Jim!!!!!
I love the design.
What sanding methods do you generally use for your 3D? Do you have any special or custom tools
For sanding the tight areas?

Great job
Kelly