CarveWright Questions

[nathanrankin]

Hello,
I consider myself to be a middle of the road WW'er with a pretty complete shop. Always looking for a new challenge I purchased a CarveWright machine primarily to make ornamental designs on box lids and signs. So far I've been able to figure out what I needed to do but am looking for more software images and hardware to continue to grow. To that end I've seeming run into the proprietary hardware (bits) and software image costs imposed by CarveWright.


Rocker is running a sale on Freund signmaking bits with 1/4 and 1/2 inch shanks. These are priced about 1/2 the cost of the proprietary bits. However, CarveWright warns against using other manufacturers. Does anyone know why and have they tried other bits?

Thanks in advance!

[KarleyHahn]

Hello,
I consider myself to be a middle of the road WW'er with a pretty complete shop. Always looking for a new challenge I purchased a CarveWright machine primarily to make ornamental designs on box lids and signs. So far I've been able to figure out what I needed to do but am looking for more software images and hardware to continue to grow. To that end I've seeming run into the proprietary hardware (geometry dash scratch) and software image costs imposed by CarveWright.


Rocker is running a sale on Freund signmaking bits with 1/4 and 1/2 inch shanks. These are priced about 1/2 the cost of the proprietary bits. However, CarveWright warns against using other manufacturers. Does anyone know why and have they tried other bits?

Thanks in advance!

I don't know either, you should ask him directly

[want2b]

Many have used other bits with no problem. Suggestion would be to look for CNC capable bits and the number of flutes. Other software can be used to create images or modify images as long as you can import the finished image product via an acceptable file type. I'm not experienced enough to create some of the file types such as STL. Have enjoyed importing images after 'modification' by products such as Corel.
Welcome to carving, hope you have as much enjoyment as I've had.