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Jim Jakosh
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Name Board
I had an order to make this board for a friend so his grandkids could learn their last name ( KOENIGSKNECHT). At work we called him Tim K-13.....quite a handle,
The letters were cut on on scroll saw out of 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood. I scored them first om my CNC laser- it will not cut this thick of material. I did the name in 3 pieces (so I could swing them in the scroll saw) and they were glued on a piece of 5/16" Baltic Birch. They fit pretty snug so I did a lot of sanding on the letters and the openings so they were very loose in their pockets. Tim is going to paint it. I added a lot of notches so the letters could be picked out if necessary. The K,'s, N's and E''s had to be fitted so they work in both locations.
Cheers, Jim
The letters were cut on on scroll saw out of 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood. I scored them first om my CNC laser- it will not cut this thick of material. I did the name in 3 pieces (so I could swing them in the scroll saw) and they were glued on a piece of 5/16" Baltic Birch. They fit pretty snug so I did a lot of sanding on the letters and the openings so they were very loose in their pockets. Tim is going to paint it. I added a lot of notches so the letters could be picked out if necessary. The K,'s, N's and E''s had to be fitted so they work in both locations.
Cheers, Jim
Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day
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Nice! I get the name length giving a bit of challenge. Sanding to make things fit everywhere. I know how well I can scroll- not. When I was in the Navy I knew a guy whose last name was Schaefferkotter. His name started in the right place on his uniform, but finished in his armpit. These people would be in the same boat
The Other Steven
cool project jim.
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
interesting name and project.
Ron
Cool JJ... While my laser has a comfortable 6mm cutting capacity (can ramp it up to 9mm with multi-pass), I found the best solution for thick projects is to cut out using comfortable capacity (say 3mm) and laminate to desired thicknes..
I don't see any issues, especially when you're working on ply.
Cutting letters from one layer would provide a perfect flush fit.
Talking about long names, back in my computer days we had a Greek woman with a name similar (in length, maybe a few letters longer) that she insisted be fully used as her logon id... I virtually had to reset her revoked access nearly on a daily basis until I refused to reset until she compromised on a 6 character userid.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
Great idea! I can imagine that learning to spell that name is quite a challenge.
If you worked in a programming environment, you’d have called him “Tim T12k.” (‘T’ followed by 12 letters with a ‘k’ at the end. I remember thinking “what the …” the first time I saw references to “I18n/L10n.” Then I learned it was shorthand for internationalization/localization. (The former is developing software so the UI can be translated to other human languages, and the latter is actually doing the translation too particular language.)
If you worked in a programming environment, you’d have called him “Tim T12k.” (‘T’ followed by 12 letters with a ‘k’ at the end. I remember thinking “what the …” the first time I saw references to “I18n/L10n.” Then I learned it was shorthand for internationalization/localization. (The former is developing software so the UI can be translated to other human languages, and the latter is actually doing the translation too particular language.)
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