so after a long long time I am going to share my latest work…
A friend (yes I have a few) brought me an invitation he recieved to a special birthday party in Austria.
it was a card that was 4x6 in size…and it was an artwork done by specailly for his friend by a local artist in Austria.
the card has special scenes in it specific to his youth and growing up…it is very dear to him…
My friend asked me to possibly make a metal reproduction for him to take over to Austria in a couple of weeks…
this was scanned then sent to inkscape and turned into a SVG file and I spent around 30 hours between Sheetcam and Inkscape getting all the cut clearances and small changes to keep it as close to the orriginal painting as possible.
We decided to go with 20 gauge metalto keep it light for travel…I was worried about warping…melt out…and the number of Pierces…and the size is around 15" x 21"
I ran the Sheetcam job report…and I was freaking out on the time on the table and the pierces required…one of the biggest to date…
I put the metal down and clipped it all over with the paper clips found on the forum…
I installed a 0.06 tip and new electrode and went to work…
Did it in ONE cut from start to finish
1118 pierces and close to 13 minutes of actual torch time…but it was 1 hour on the table from start to finish…
the battery is an AA battery to show level of detail…
and here is my tip after all that…still good to cut with after all that…gonna break a personal reconrd with my dry air set-up…
