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From: James (TILER02) [#1]
13 Oct 2005
To: ALL

Here is a 18x18 granite plaque engraved yesterday. I thought it turned out pretty well. Customer was happy.

EDITED: 20 Dec 2005 by TILER02

From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#2]
13 Oct 2005
To: James (TILER02) [#1] 13 Oct 2005

James,

Nice! How long is the running time on a job like that?

From: James (TILER02) [#3]
13 Oct 2005
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#2] 13 Oct 2005

Run time on that was 23 minutes. I engraved at 300dpi, 100% speed, 30% power with a 100 watt Epilog

From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#4]
13 Oct 2005
To: James (TILER02) [#3] 13 Oct 2005

James,

That's not bad. Sounds like a money-maker! :-)

From: Rolf (RJB2108) [#5]
13 Oct 2005
To: James (TILER02) [#1] 13 Oct 2005

James,
Super nice plaque !!!
How did you engrave the background? Did you use a lower setting on the engraver?

From: James (TILER02) [#6]
13 Oct 2005
To: Rolf (RJB2108) [#5] 13 Oct 2005

Engraving the background was simple, All the text is 100% black and has a 1.5 pt white outline around it. The background is 10% black. Engraved as normal. I like doing background engraving. The first couple times I tried it I was not happy with the results, but now I do a lot of it.

From: Rolf (RJB2108) [#7]
13 Oct 2005
To: James (TILER02) [#6] 13 Oct 2005

Thank you.
Again, your work is really nice!!
Rolf

From: Arkie [#8]
14 Oct 2005
To: ALL

Very nice work, James.

Where did you get the granite. I saw some in a Home Depot catalog but I haven't tried it yet (My closest Home Depot is 100 miles). They also have some terra cotta tile I'd like to play with.

Has anyone used the black granite from HD??

From: James (TILER02) [#9]
17 Oct 2005
To: Arkie [#8] 17 Oct 2005

I get my granite from my Dal-Tile distributer. I have bought some granite from Lowes. As long as you get the Absalute Black you should not have any problems.

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