Cricket circut cutter

[Straightliner59]

Thank you, Jim. That illustrates just how versatile one of these machines can be. I reckon I'll need to set aside some time to delve into mine!

[OldNYJim]

Just for fun I messed with an idea for a tailgate today for a hot rod build I’m messing with - picked a font and cut some letters out to kind of fake a stamped metal look.  The negative version of the cut (eg: the part left after I separated the letters) could go on the back and make it look like an actual stamped piece of metal.  
 

This was just a test piece to see if it work work ok - definitely has some potential I think! 

[OldNYJim]

The trick to get that part looking more realistic looking, now I think of it, would be to file the edges of the letters at a 45 degree (ish) angle so they’re not as sharp - but it was an interesting experiment anyway!

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

On 10/24/2019 at 7:07 PM, BigTallDad said:

Goats

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[SCRWDRVR]

19 hours ago, CabDriver said:

Yes sir!  

Perfect thanks...

[SCRWDRVR]

15 hours ago, CabDriver said:

Just for fun I messed with an idea for a tailgate today for a hot rod build I’m messing with - picked a font and cut some letters out to kind of fake a stamped metal look.  The negative version of the cut (eg: the part left after I separated the letters) could go on the back and make it look like an actual stamped piece of metal.  
 

This was just a test piece to see if it work work ok - definitely has some potential I think! 

What material did you cut there and did you use just a regular blade on it?

[OldNYJim]

1 hour ago, SCRWDRVR said:

What material did you cut there and did you use just a regular blade on it?

I normally use regular old styrene sheet - you can't go too thick and expect the machine to cut right through but anything the thickness of, say, heavy card will work ok...and if it doesn't go all the way through it's easy enough to score with a scalpel blade or snap the pieces out.  I'm just using a regular blade for the machine - my last one lasted probably a year and still cut ok, so I haven't seen the need to mess with the better ones that you can buy yet.

For this one, because I was just experimenting, I used one of those dollar store 'For Sale' signs...I just pick the largest one I can get for a dollar!  I didn't clean the printing off the backside very well, hence the red tinge around the edge of the letters, but rubbing alcohol does an easy job of removing that stuff when I'm making 'real' parts

[SCRWDRVR]

3 hours ago, CabDriver said:

I normally use regular old styrene sheet - you can't go too thick and expect the machine to cut right through but anything the thickness of, say, heavy card will work ok...and if it doesn't go all the way through it's easy enough to score with a scalpel blade or snap the pieces out.  I'm just using a regular blade for the machine - my last one lasted probably a year and still cut ok, so I haven't seen the need to mess with the better ones that you can buy yet.

For this one, because I was just experimenting, I used one of those dollar store 'For Sale' signs...I just pick the largest one I can get for a dollar!  I didn't clean the printing off the backside very well, hence the red tinge around the edge of the letters, but rubbing alcohol does an easy job of removing that stuff when I'm making 'real' parts

Hmmmmm very interesting I’ll have to try that.... thanks