Hi everyone, I am a brand new owner and could use some advise on font choices.
I am trying to make some coasters with v-carved fonts and would appreciate information on what type of fonts carve the cleanest. The lettering won’t be very tall as I am trying to have three lines in a 3.25" square and would like them to be deep enough to fill.
Any font should work — perhaps try a more acute V endmill?
As @WillAdams said any will work.
I did some coasters as Christmas gifts with Bamboo cutting boards from the Dollar Store. Attached is one of my test files if you want.
Coaster Test.c2d (484 KB)
Small lines require a 15/20/30 degree vee bit. The 90/60 will barely scratch the surface of very fine lines and small objects.
Another approach is to use a single line (‘stick’) font, and use a small endmill. Good stick font seem to be hard to find, and most software doesn’t work well with then because they don’t have an enclosed area.
BUT, a font I have used in the past that ‘emulates’ a stick font is the oddly named ZNiko font, available here:
It’s actually an extremely narrow font, so you can just do a contour cut on it using an endmill and it looks like a stick font. Here is a dog show prize I made - the ‘bone’ is about 1" across on the middle part of the bone. I used a 1mm endmill to carve it.
Excellent point.
Also see:
I would like to thank everyone for the prompt and sage advice.
This is an impressive group.
