Some recent work - Door Letters

[tri4sale]

Had a request for some simple (but very profitable) letters for hanging on doors:

 

[Hmerkle]

Those are REALLY neat Daniel
Are they scroll work or CNC or ???

Where did you get the pattern?

 

[tri4sale]

Those are REALLY neat Daniel
Are they scroll work or CNC or ???

Where did you get the pattern?

CNC, I really don't think you could be profitable with the time it would take to do them on a scroll saw, well at least I couldn't be profitable with the time it would take me on a scroll saw. The letters are vine style font I merge with a circle.

 

[EddieM]

Its very profitable! Are you putting keyholes in the back?

 

[Jeremy Scuteri]

Those look great. What kind of CNC do you have?

 

[tri4sale]

Its very profitable! Are you putting keyholes in the back?

Yes, I put keyholes in back for easy mounting.

Those look great. What kind of CNC do you have?

I have a 4x8 ShopBot, use Aspire software for design.

 

[kg5000]

I've been designing these door letter hangers to cut on my CNC for a while. I find scroll saw patterns as a basis and do the artwork in Inkscape and then export DXF into CamBam to create the tool paths. I have been struggling with backlash in my home built machine so my results are not quite saleable. My wife bought one at a store called Swoosie's for $30 that had very sloppy cuts and was not sealed properly so it has swollen up from moisture outdoors.

 

[Jeremy Scuteri]

Daniel,
Did you take any training classes at the Shop Bot facility?

 

[tri4sale]

Daniel,
Did you take any training classes at the Shop Bot facility?

No, I taught myself. Really wish I had, but I've never been able to take the time off work for their 2 day class. I did tour the facility before deciding on buying a ShopBot.

 

[tri4sale]

I've been designing these door letter hangers to cut on my CNC for a while. I find scroll saw patterns as a basis and do the artwork in Inkscape and then export DXF into CamBam to create the tool paths. I have been struggling with backlash in my home built machine so my results are not quite saleable. My wife bought one at a store called Swoosie's for $30 that had very sloppy cuts and was not sealed properly so it has swollen up from moisture outdoors.

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Thats an awesome design, did you come up with that or is that the one your wife bought? What size is that one in the picture?

I've seen that with a lot of store sold designs, they are cheaper but the quality is a bit lacking, they don't sand between paint coats so you get a lot of fuzzies, and they don't seal properly and use an interior grade wood so they swell up. I've seen some that used MDF for an exterior door sign. I'm actually using an exterior sign material to avoid some of those issues.

Always impressed with someone who able to make their own CNC machines, what size did you build?

 

[kg5000]

Thats an awesome design, did you come up with that or is that the one your wife bought? What size is that one in the picture?

I've seen that with a lot of store sold designs, they are cheaper but the quality is a bit lacking, they don't sand between paint coats so you get a lot of fuzzies, and they don't seal properly and use an interior grade wood so they swell up. I've seen some that used MDF for an exterior door sign. I'm actually using an exterior sign material to avoid some of those issues.

Always impressed with someone who able to make their own CNC machines, what size did you build?

I started with a vector scroll saw pattern for a drink coaster maybe 5" in diameter. I stretched it in Inkscape, added the inner ring, added the letter in the middle and then removed unneeded lines. The final diameter was about 23".

I built my first CNC mill from plans off Instructables and was benchtop sized with an 11 x 17 cut envelope. I have since scaled up the design to be 72 x 72 with a 52 x 52 cut envelope. I'm still trying to get the scaled up version to cut correctly without to too much noticeable backlash.

 

[EddieM]

We make ours out of baltic birch. I have so much fun making these for paint parties, and church events! I'm not sure how these pictures will show up...for some reason I have the most difficult time adding pictures.

 

[tri4sale]

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We make ours out of baltic birch. I have so much fun making these for paint parties, and church events! I'm not sure how these pictures will show up...for some reason I have the most difficult time adding pictures.

Showed up great, pictures are good. I've made some out of Baltic Birch, I just hate sanding them especially in all the small areas between letters.

 

[tri4sale]

Here's 2 other styles, rough cut before I finish up w/ light sanding, I make these for my clients when they buy a house, but use their last name.