I have been making more lithophanes on the Taig. I don’t plan to show them all off here. Some day when I have enough “good” ones I may decide to do a gallery here in Ramblin’ Dan. I just ordered a backlighting kit from http://www.vibelights.com/info.html. Once I have it tested out I will show the results here. I may be buying a lot of these things. The 5.5″ x 12″ work area on the Taig...
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V-Carve Engraving
This is some more photo engraving work done with the VECTRIC software and the Taig Micro-Mill. The mill working area is only 5.5″ x 12″ but that is good for making these 5″x7″ engravings. The first picture is Shopdog VAC “Bingo”. You can see he looks better here than in the top down view farther down the page. The second picture is daughter Shelley who sometimes makes comments here in the RamblinDan Blog. These are...
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I have not been spending a lot of time here on the blog or my other sites. Tisk-tisk. Well, there has been a lot of other things to do. Like letting my back pain subside. Had the worse backache ever, right after New Years. So bad that I went to the doctor after about a week of severe suffering. The X-ray revealed I have no L5-S1 disk under the L5 vertebra. The spine is grinding on the...
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I just made a two day trip from Dallas out to North Carolina. My company (TAC) has a branch in Morrisville, NC which is just outside Raleigh. I also visited Flat Rock, Home of Carl Sandburg (and my brother) which is on the West end of the state. I drove between the two. Nice scenery, flat to mountains. I made a pitch for TAC at the HVAC contractor business where my brother is now operations manager. I...
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