Good font for small text

[RC Woodworks]

Ken, in my post above the sign love story contains 12 lines at 33" and all 1" letters. So I think the verdict is 1" is the safest size!

Rick

[Kenm810]

Rick,

My machine is carving away as I type,
I loaded the suggestions to be carved on a project board to see how they come out.
I'm paying extra attention to the upper case ABPR and the lower case adbgpq plus a few others of course.
I plan to try them with a few different Bits. I'll post what I find out.

Thanks

[Kenm810]

OOOPPPSS ---- I’ll have to wait a little on that, -- one of the new guys accidentally reversed the negative air flow on a couple of the shops, and filled them both with lacquer solvent and laminate adhesive fumes from my shop. Now half of their guys are running around looking for paper bags or any handy trash can, and the other half are wondering around mumbling to themselves with wide eyes and big stupid grins. There ya go Better Living Through Chemistry.

ps. one of the gals from the office just came back to see what was going on,
took one whiff grabbed her nose and ask how could we stand the smell of these fumes,
mostly outside in the parking lot I answered, ---hmmm she didn't even look back.

[BobC33]

Thanks Guys, these give a few avenues to look in to. I haven't really gotten into fine print, small fonts, or any kind of machine or Laser engraving. A little more trial and error, I guess its alway part of tinkering with something new. I might try a few Different bits in my Brand New 1/8" bit holders, I'm not expecting to much from the bits, but new bit holder have worked out great. Oh -- by the way one of the grunts from one of the other shops stopped in and said he had seen a couple of my machines carvings, and asked if I could carve his name on his Golf Balls. ---- before I could answer he turned and walk away, it must have been, the "are you nuts" look on my face that gave it away.
Thanks again

Where did you get the 1/8" bit holders?

[Kenm810]

Hey bob,
just follow this post and Ron will help you with what you need.
So far they have been working better then I had hoped.

http://www.carvewright.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3678

[Kenm810]

Here's a photo of my First shot at small font text Carved on 1/2" MDf.
Unfortunately the picture is quite deceiving,
The upper case letters actually measure a little under 3/8 of an inch tall,
I'll put something in the next photo to add scale to the font.
I hope you don't mind pkunk that I borrowed and changed your tag line a little,
but it had most of the upper and lower case letters I was interested in.
Typing in centerline is a dream, and I'm looking forward to it being available to all of us soon.
I'll try for a even smaller type tomorrow. As pkunk said 3 lines in 1' and readable wow.

[pkunk]

Quite alright, but inside is one word. I give freely, but Ken - get it right!

[Kenm810]

Yup, Your right, the village idiot must have been at my key board again today.-----

Where's My Proof Reader!

How This one

[Dan-Woodman]

Ya no---- My cw mispelled a name the other day , Or ahh could it have been the computer?

[scgrout]

Take a look at my post tonight in "Gallery" titled "Quick Project in Plexiglass" where I "carved" a protractor out of 1/16 plexiglass. The smallest numbers are about 1/4 high (photo's shown plus the mpc file with the numbers).

I did the numbers by drawing my own font in Carvewrite. Technique is - use Carvewright to type out the text you want. Trace this text with lines and splines in the center. Delete original text. Then cut 0.30" inces deep with a 60 degree dremel bit (I bought the adapter referenced in these forums for using 1/8 in dremel bits). I made the whole alphabet and all numbers so I copy/paste to made words.

Is a pain but works for simple tasks. If you use the same word(s) or numbers over and over (like your name on the back), you can store your alpha-numerics in a mpc file and copy/paste to whatever project your working on.

Thanks,

Scott