John Cole
Elite Cafe Member
Hello all,
I reciently got a gravemeister from another engraver here online. The machiene works wonderfully and I've been happy with it's performance, even if my skills aren't quite up to the machienes.
It's an older model and the strokes per minutes are from 800 up to 1200.
I know that several folks have machienes that have a much higher output.
So my question is, are there any differences at different cutting speeds?
I find that I tend to float between 1000 and 1200 spm on my machiene, while pushing very little on the handpiece. I can't imagine what a faster speed would be like. I'm afraid I'd wipe out on the curves like a kid in a sports car.
I just started the layout on a steel belt buckle blank that I got at the local leather store today. If it doesn't look like a train ran over it, I'll post the results in a few days. To date there have been a lot of "train wrecks" in the shop, but Rome wasn't built in a day, and it a good darn thing.
John C.
I reciently got a gravemeister from another engraver here online. The machiene works wonderfully and I've been happy with it's performance, even if my skills aren't quite up to the machienes.
It's an older model and the strokes per minutes are from 800 up to 1200.
I know that several folks have machienes that have a much higher output.
So my question is, are there any differences at different cutting speeds?
I find that I tend to float between 1000 and 1200 spm on my machiene, while pushing very little on the handpiece. I can't imagine what a faster speed would be like. I'm afraid I'd wipe out on the curves like a kid in a sports car.
I just started the layout on a steel belt buckle blank that I got at the local leather store today. If it doesn't look like a train ran over it, I'll post the results in a few days. To date there have been a lot of "train wrecks" in the shop, but Rome wasn't built in a day, and it a good darn thing.
John C.