Re: Engraving Bricks

Ron

There's an outfit here in town (Springfield VT) that engraves stones
with cute sayings as a novelty gift-shop item. They use a CNC laser,
and it appears to be a trivial thing for them to do with the equipment
that they have. You are located not that far away, & my guess is they
could do it for you for a fee that you would regard as reasonable. If
interested, I'll get contact info for you.

Steve Clay-Young

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Ron Ginger <ronginger@...> wrote:
>
> I am working on a fund raising project for the Boothbay Railway
Village.
> We are looking at a brick walk, where people make a donation and get
> their name engraved in a brick.
>
> Ive found a couple sites on the web that do this, for $20 per brick.
> Most seem to sandblast them, but one site claims to be 'real engraved'
> with special machines.
>
> Id guess a diamond bit in a router on a simple CNC table ought to do
the
> job. I think Id make the machine a disposable- maybe a wood or mdf
> structure. If I got 100 to 200 bricks out of it before it died I would
> be ahead of the $20 per brick. I only need a working area of one
brick- 4x8"
>
> Has anyone tried this? Any suggestions for a source of bits?
>
> ron ginger
>