[blindwoodworker] Re: Steel Chess board
- From: Dan Rossi <dr25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: blindwoodworker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 08:25:26 -0400 (EDT)
John,
The place I worked that had the water jet cutter was just a machine shop.
I could only recommend that you call around to various machine shops in
your area to see if they have a water jet cutter. Although, a water jet
isn't necessary, a CNC mill could do the same. CNC, Computer Numerically
Controlled, or something like that.
In my case, the negative of the brass goes completely through the wood.
The jet was used to cut both the positive and negative. It was pretty
easy for the Computer Aided Design guy to program both. If you were going
to do a really good job of the inlay, you would need computer control to
do both the positive and negative because the tolerances are pretty
tight.
I like your idea of the resin with brass powder.
Just for further description. The name is a series of letters, all
sitting on a thin bar at the bottom, IE, the bottoms of all the letters
are connected together along this bar, so it is one piece of metal.
Secondly, you can see the kerf cuts in a couple of the letters that have
enclosed hollow spaces, for example, the letter O. I think it was possible
to cut them without showing any kerf, but I think it is very interesting
to see just how fine a kerf you can cut with water.
Anyway, see if you can't take a browse through a local telephone registry
and look up machine shop, or whatever you might call the equivalent down
under. Ask if they have any computer controlled milling equipment and if
they would do a small job.
Hope that helps.
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
E-Mail: dr25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: (412) 268-9081
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