Anyone care to engrave this ambigram?

[Sam]

I drew this yesterday and thought it'd be fun to offer it to Cafe members as an engraving challenge. It'd be interesting to see how different engravers approach it. I can reverse it and post an .EPS file so you can scale, print, and transfer it for engraving. Any takers?

ENGRAVER ambigram

~Sam

 

[Cloudy]

I'd like a shot at it, please!

 

[Bunic]

Sam,

WOW! That is cool! I really wanted to try to engrave it, but the darn thing kept spinning around and I couldn't get a good look at it!! :beat up:

 

[pilkguns]

Yep, me too. My graver keeps digging furrows trying to catch up with it

 

[Sam]

I knew Cloudy would tackle this one!

I've updated the page with a download link. The .EPS file will open in CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Fireworks, Photoshop, and other graphics applications. The image has been reversed and is ready for transfer, but you'll need to scale it to fit your practice plate or whatever you're engraving the design on.

I'll start a new thread where you can upload a photo when you're finished.

Have fun!

 

[Crazy Horse]

I'm right handed, can you make it spin clockwise....;~)

 

[Jane]

I might give it a try but will have to put "wanna be" in front of engraver...

 

[Sam]

Have some fun with it, Jane!

 

[Jane]

Well I guess I don't have any programs on my computer to open it. Maybe one day I will get correl draw and many other items I want/need if I can find me a money tree! Thanks for the option to play with it though.

 

[Two Ponies]

Me Too

I guess I fall into that same group. I have Photoshop but cannot get it to work, even after trying to download several programs to get it. :beat up:

 

[Mario Sarto]

Hello Jane, hello Two Ponies!
After reading your words i transfered the file into an inkscape compatible format. What you can do now, is to get inkscape for free here.
After you installed the program onto your computer, just decompress the .zip file and now you should be able to open the file with inkscape. You can resize, turn around or what you like to do with it.
Give it a try.

 

[Jane]

Thanks a ton Mario. I really appreciate you taking the time to do that. Hope I'm smart enough to do it now.
Thanks, thanks, thanks!

Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk

 

[Sam]

Thanks, Mario! I've not used inkscape but I hear it's good software...and the price is right!

 

[Jane]

woohoo! I got it to work...thanks again!

 

[Mario Sarto]

Hello Jane, it is good to hear, it works. Have fun with it.
Sam, it is a nice little program and your ambigram was easy to transfer. Works great!

 

[mrthe]

For people that using photoshop and illustrator with the permission of Sam ( and if not please delete this post )
there are a png version and a illustrator file of the same image

 

[Robert Morales]

I worked on this during the dreary weathered weekend.
I transfered it and the shading lines using my pantograph.
I've cut the letters and started on the shading. I will probably
need to re-cut the letters to clean them up afterwards. I'm
thinking of adding an Art Nouveau border.

 

[Sam]

Hooray! Someone finally did it! Looks great Robert! Very neatly done :thumbs up:

 

[Cloudy]

Here's my take on it- worse than knitting mittens, to make both ends match!

 

[Scratchmo]

I did this very small in the handle of my lapping tool for grins. My pattern was a bit fuzzy, so I goofed up one of the end letters.
I took the image with my new Dino-Lite digital microscope which I'm not all that happy with. Notice the image gets blurry toward the outer edges. It doesn't do that as much at higher magnification. (see close-up)