Aaaargh!!! I hate you!!!!
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Whilst I really love pratting about with machines and mechanisms, your arrival on the scene really put a spanner in my works!! I was all ready to follow the CNC route purely because I like making stuff. Jeesh, I've got 'single use' jigs at home that are worth far more just in scrap value than I could ever get from the piece that was made from them, even if I sold pens!! I figured I'd SAVE money by building a CNC!!
I hear what you say about cnc being a bit of a cheat, and I honestly used to think like that too. But really what's the difference? You spend hours and hours experimenting with chemicals and then even more trying to get a vinyl sticker (cnc'd :wink: ) to be precisely positioned on a machined piece of metal. Then the chemicals do their thing. You then apply more chemicals to fill the voids.
Now, if the stickers go exactly where you want them and the resin turns back down to give you a flawless result, why is that more 'crafty' than building a michine to do the same thing?
But same goes for the cnc route, doesn't it?
I don't know which method is more skillful, honestly I don't, but either method only requires the method to be perfected for the
first one. Once you crack the chemicals or the cnc, both would have future known ( or at least 'expected' ) results.
Do you still get a buzz when you make a 'basic' coloured aluminium pen or divers rattle? I don't think so....that's why you are having so much fun at the moment. It's new and excites you. You won't make dozens and dozens of pens like this will you?
You are like me, once you've cracked it, you'll get bored and have to try something new. You get much more enjoyment from the question than you do from the answer!!!:wink::biggrin:
I just wish you hadn't said that etching stainless was possible!!!
How am I gonna tell my missus????
'Er, honey....you know those stepper motors I asked you for Christmas? Can you get me some acid and swipe some lead off the churches roof instead please??'
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