V-engraving text on sterling silver

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

I had good luck w/ a V endmill in brass using Vectric VCarve:

Help with vCarving a sign

Further adjust the paths, or use a tool which limits depths, or use a shallower angle tool, or a thicker material. I figure I’ll just fill w/ powdered enamel and epoxy. Anyway, finally found time to cut this w/ the right endmills: [image] Need to get a loupe from work and deburr the edges and then work out some way to infill the colours.

but was cutting around the text, rather than directly incising the text — doing that is challenging since the tip of the V has a very low effect speed — if memory serves I was ramping in and had to carefully balance the plunge rate even then.