Full Version: Beveler

From: Paul (MMENGRAVER) [#16]
 19 Sep 2005
To: trophyman (MIKEBERGER) [#15] 19 Sep 2005

I like that idea. I use my rotary now to bevel and engrave. I just got a laser and was afraid of aligning the piece up after rotary cutting the piece out.

From: Shaddy [#17]
 19 Sep 2005
To: Paul (MMENGRAVER) [#16] 19 Sep 2005

Not sure I'm fully understanding... but if you want to cut first, then use the laser to engrave, you could make a template. Use some stock (birch, MDF, acrylic) and use the laser to cut out a shape that's the same as the one you are wanting to engrave. Then you take out that cut piece, and insert the thing you want engraved into the hole. Poof, you just made a template and you know right where the borders are for your laser, and everything is aligned. Just save the file that your laser used, and mark the template so you always know which is the upper left and top, and you can use it with pretty good repeatability.

Shaddy

From: Paul (MMENGRAVER) [#18]
 19 Sep 2005
To: Shaddy [#17] 19 Sep 2005

I guess i'm making this more difficult then what it really is. I need to bevel around 25-2000 pcs. The smallest and most being about .375" x 2" long. Before i got my laser i was doing my engraving on the little rotary machine. Time has become a BIG issue. I just spent a lot of money getting this laser and spending another $900 was cutting into my wallet and was hoping to find a happy medium on saving money and doing these jobs faster.

From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#19]
 20 Sep 2005
To: Paul (MMENGRAVER) [#18] 20 Sep 2005

As far as speed, nothing like a beveler.

As far as beveling an edge 1/2" or smaller, nothing like an engraver. You have to get the technique down in order to bevel a short edge without nicking the corner due to the leading corner wanting to fall into the tiny area where the bit is. (You may want to start by using a small square of about 1x1 to use as a square to push with.)

From: PenTrophy (PENINSULATROPHY) [#20]
 20 Sep 2005
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#19] 20 Sep 2005

The trick to beveling multi items smaller than 1/2" is vector score the items without cutting through and keeping the smaller edges all together as one piece and running say 10 or so through the beveler on both sides then snapping them apart and beveling the longer sides.

From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#21]
 20 Sep 2005
To: ALL

The trick to beveling small widths, i.e. 3/8" is not to bevel such small widths. Sounds logical enough, but that doesn't make sense -- or does it?

Here's what you do:

Let's say you need a number of 3/8" x 2" plastic plates. Cut a 2" x 12" length from a piece of sheet stock.

Bevel the two 12" long sides.

Guess what? By beveling the 12" widths, before you cut the individual plates, you've already beveled the small widths.

That means, after cutting the individual plates, all that's left to do, is bevel the 2" widths.

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