This certainly wasn’t the first thing I made, but it’s one I’m fairly happy with. I originally made it as a test for another customer and decided to put my wings, callsign, and squadron designators on it. I honestly thought I’d end up throwing it away if it didn’t work. I’m happy it did, and I can hang all my old squadron mugs and steins on my office wall now. Win-win.
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Turned out nice. What bit did you use for the emblem?
This was just a Whiteside half-inch 90 degree V-bit for the whole thing. It was one of the first times I had used a v-carve function.
On later ones I’ve done like the one pictured below, once I started engraving squadron patches instead of alpha numeric designators I use a collection of small engraving bits that are generally between 90 and 40 degrees. 90 and 60 if I’m v-carving and 60 or 40 if I’m just contouring a line.
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Thank you for the info again very nice work.
Do you think I can use only a 60 degree V-bit to get the same details? How long did it take to cnc?
Hey, sorry for the slow response. I don’t get on the forums much. I usually cut these out of .75 inch plywood so I think a 60 degree bit would cut too deep to get the width of some of the v-cuts. The whole thing took about an hour to cut. Hope that helps.
And I didn’t scroll up to see what project we were talking about. It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at this thread. Each of the patches took about 30 minutes with a 60 degree engraving bit and the wings took about 45 with a half inch 90 degree v bit.