CNC Shark Forum

This may sound "nuts" but using the "Inlay" buttons process, there was always a hairline gap around all of the text. I was not satisfied. Here's what I ended up with. 1) I created the original text in PhotoShop and used this image to load into Vcarve to carve the pocket/recessed area for the letters...

Many thanks for your response. My intention for my Shark is to specialize in "miniature" or "micro" items. At some point dollhouse furniture. About 5 years ago I obtained for free a display of a granite sink company. It has about a dozen miniture sinks in granite - Each about 2 X 3 inches in actual ...

I operate a nonprofit organization and used my CNC Shark to create one panel for my traveling Lincoln assassination museum. It shows how wood engravings were produced in the 19th century. The wood at the top is dark walnut and the text is birch. The white/yellow/black line underneath the text is a p...

You are fast! Actually, it just came to me that I used an engraving toolpath instead of pocket toolpath.

Rick Brown

So far, so good. Thanks. Now I am attempting another routing job. I have an image that is 2.75 X 3.25 inches. It is only 2D, i.e. specific areas milled down 1/8 inch. The rest with no routing. The first time on the image I wanted the white areas to be milled down. All it did was outline the shapes. ...

Here are both the .crv and .tap files. Thanks for your help.

Rick Brown

Hi, I am using VCarve 6.0 and have questions about how to accomplish 2 different routing processes: 1) My full image size is 13.75 x 8.5 and 1/2 deep. Throughout the image there are large areas that need to be routered down 1/16 inch. A .25 flat router bit would work best I think. However, in the sa...

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HistoryBuff.com is a nonprofit organization. I am attempting to produce a "printing plate" for a mid-1800s woodcut engraving. I've scanned an original printed woodcut, and then spent many hours in PhotoShop making each line more distinct and removing "artifacts" to simplify the cuts made by the rout...

Hello, The photo shows the probe scanning a dime. Can it really be that accurate? For what I want to do with it, it doesn't really need to be that sensitive, but the item I want to scan does have areas that are small pinpoints of about 1/64 of an inch. 1) Can the scan probe accomplish this? 2) For a...