Ceramic tiles with Nomad 3?

[rtwo (abee)]

New Nomad 3 owner (and CNC in general)

I’m looking to engrave a set of regular ceramic bath tiles, paint them, and then mount them together for a larger mosaic kind of thing.

That said, with a N3, would the new drag bit Carbide released be appropriate for this material? I’m not sure it will be able to carve deep enough or not but it seems like that might work. Any advice appreciated

R3

[Radiation (Josh)]

Depends on the tile type. Here’s drag engraving on granite:

Engraving a picture in granite?

I’ve been wanting to try this for a while and came into some time over the holiday to experiment. I played around with different cross-hatch densities to come up with a gray-scale. Then took a high-contrast picture, converted it into gray-scale using 5 or 6 shades and converted those areas into engraving tool paths in v-carve for a diamond drag bit in black granite. Overall, it’s not spectacular, but I think it has promise. The drop off from light to dark needs to be more dramatic for the pi…

More of the same:

First time with diamond drag bit

This is my first effort with a diamond drag bit on some granite tile from the home depot. [IMG_7752] I posted it over in the Shapeoko facebook group and forgot to post it here. I am pretty pleased with it, but the SVG could really use some cleanup before I run it again. It would also be great to find a solid black tile, but as I have recently learned, a diamond drag bit does exactly squat to glazed ceramic tile. Live and learn. Going to play with some slate next.

I cutout and engraved on marble (and will be doing more stone stuff eventually) for one of the contests. I used diamond coated stone carving tools for a Dremel. Process went way smoother once I started cooling with water, but it was a bit messy.

Community challenge #18: Unusual stock (closed)

First project to sort of test the waters, as it were. I’ve wanted to do stone/marble something for a while. I know soap stone exists, and a few people have done that, but it’s soft…and also already been done. So we have a family friend who had a dog pass not too long ago, and figured this would be a pretty neat/unique thing to give them. I went to Lowes and grabbed this marble tile piece for like $4, got a dog bone shape online, and did some fancy looking text for the dog’s name. [PXL_2021022…

Hope those somewhat help.

[Julien]

I’ll add an example of engraving a ceramic tile (not a spectacular result, it was for the sake of trying my diamond drag bit)

[gdon_2003 (Guy Donham)]

You need spare pieces for a tile job. Use one of those spares. Although tile glaze is hard the tile itself is not as hard. There are many types of tile and the only way to find out is to do it. The glaze may engrave nicely or it might crack and look jagged on the edges. Give it a try.

[rtwo (abee)]

Great info, thanks much everyone