Used the Mc Etcher to engrave a Ti test piece. Works well!
Is that a bit of Art Deco in the inlay?
Yes, I got a bunch of Art Deco SVGs from Etsy, and my wife picked that one.
What was your work holding strategy here?
Looks great. Vectric has a text kerning feature that would have helped with some of those letter combinations. But that still looks really great! +1
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An alternative is to set the text in a tool which supports kerning pairs, convert it to paths, preserving the spacing, then import into Carbide Create.
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Googled that, found out that’s what I did to spread the tiny letters out on the curve, nice to know the technical term! That’s the first of my goal of learning at least 10 new things per day. Or maybe relearning stuff I forgot haha, whatever.
Etched letters on cans is a whole new thing for me. These are my first attempts. I was surprised how well the 120 degree McEtcher rendered the tiny letters. Now will have to try tinier. Also, I’m sure there are better fonts for this sort of thing, this one just caught my eye for an earlier project and stuck with it.
Please advise any favorites you might recommend.
I learn a lot from this thread, thanks for the tip!
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Made a couple coin banks for the kids today.
I had changed the text last minute and forgot to re-enter it. Might fix it another day, well see.
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Ark?
Padding because the gods say so 
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Yep
(And more characters)
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Looks interesting. What is it? What is your work holding strategy for small parts?
To me it l looks like a metal casting of a tooth.
Yea it is the Bond Villain Jaws tooth.
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Kinda. It was part of the first puppet I made. Everything is sculpted in wax and then cast. The bronze is everdur silicon bronze, rolled flat and hand cut. And the nickel is about 25/75 CuNi. Luckily now I have a cnc, I can start a more capable version when I get time for it.
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Looks like Facebones from Metalocalypse.
Very nice, you are the Master of Puppets, Metallica.
I was going to say tiny shoe stretcher…
The puppet is awesome.
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After months of issues with my Nomad i finally had enough uptime and confidence to make a box for
the engagement ring.
And she said yes.
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