Engraved Tele Control Plate

bharbour · Post by **bharbour** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 10:27 pm

Used a 30 degree vbit, 10ipm feed, 3ipm plunge, .002" per pass, total depth .012". 6061 aluminum.

I will grind away to the outline and the cross hairs are for centering the drill press. I took two pics to accentuate the two engraved sections. i must say it was impressive to see the machine work lines that close together and those small curves.

sunnamp33 · Post by **sunnamp33** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:39 pm

Can you share the files? That is really cool.

bharbour · Post by **bharbour** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 1:46 pm

Sure...PM me and I'll email them to you.

sunnamp33 wrote:Can you share the files? That is really cool.

bharbour · Post by **bharbour** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:10 pm

Here's the finished product...

Woodworker · Post by **Woodworker** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 1:25 pm

That is very nice. Which CAD program do you use and do you freehand the spirals?

bharbour · Post by **bharbour** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:07 pm

I used Inkscape. The free engraving patterns were from the Internet and were modified to fit what I wanted to do. Here's a site that has drawings that you can pull into Inkscape http://www.guitar-parts-depot.com/control-plates.html

Woodworker wrote:That is very nice. Which CAD program do you use and do you freehand the spirals?

Woodworker · Post by **Woodworker** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:03 am

Thank you, I have bookmarked that site.

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