#Inktober 2020 engravings

A friend of mine, Dimitri, set himself a doodling challenge for October 2020: take a single word, and make a little drawing with that word as the topic. And do this every day of the month of October 2020. He called it Inktober 2020.

I took two of his drawings, and turned them into engravings on my SainSmart Genmitsu 3018 PROVer.

With Vecctric's Aspire (or V-Carve for that matter), it is quite easy to do a vector trace of a black and white picture, so the toolpaths and G-codes were quickly created. I have about 200 of those little 147x45z12mm Laced Acacia wood planks (leftovers from IKEA RUNNEN wood tiles) laying around, so they made excellent test pieces!

I used a 60 degree V-bit for this first project.

@dimiris_d's Inktober 2020 "Bulky"

The V-bit is a little stump for smaller details, so the text gets a little hard to read on this small scale,


The second one I decided to try was "Sleep". This time, I wanted to pocket out the area that was going to be engraved to a thickness of 5mm, and then cut out the engraving in a rectagular shape. I also tried out using tabs to hold the cut out piece to it's surroundings - even though that was not necessary when using double-sided tape to secure the workpiece to the spoilboard like I do. It's all a learning process, so you have to try things out, right?

@dimiris_d's Inktober2020 "Sleep"


The cutout profile neatly cut through the material and the double-sided tape, as you can see above.


It all worked exactly as planned! I used a 30 degree V-bit with a 0.1mm flat tip for this one.

Detail on this one is much better than on the first one with the 60 degree V-bit.


A little oil added some more contast to the end product. I call this one finished, and a succes!



SainSmart Genmitsu 3018 PROVer, directly from SainSmart
SainSmart Genmitsu KABA enclosure, also directly from SainSmart







These are the bit sets I used for theze carves:
Various bits set: Various Bits from Banggood


60 degree V-bit: V-bit from Banggood



Location: Nederland

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