LED Acrylic Sign Making | ToolsToday (4K)
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- Watch in 4K as Tyson Moore puts his acrylic CNC cutting and LED light sign making skills to test with Amana Tool®’s 1/8” and 1/4” diameter Solid Carbide Spektra™ Extreme Tool Life Coated Up-Cut Router Bits and Mini Insert Spoilboard Router Bit. www.toolstoday.com
Tyson cuts the 1/16”, 1/8” and 1/4" thick acrylic on his Carbide 3D Shapeoko CNC machine. The up-cut bits pull the chips up evacuating them from the cut where a down-cut bit forces the acrylic chips down and can potentially melt them together. Evacuating the chips better reduces any excess friction caused by the chips resulting in less of a chance of melting the acrylic. Top edge will stay crisp with an up-cut bit in acrylic.
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Feed, Speed, Chip Load & Step Down CNC Running Parameters
10" x 80 Teeth, Amana Tool Prestige Series with Electro-Blu™ Coating, Carbide Tipped Non-Melt Plastic Cutting M-TCG Grind Saw Blade no. LB10801C
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3/8” Dia. Carbide Tipped Countersink with No Burning and No Marring Adjustable Depth Stop with No-Thrust BB, 1/8" Drill Dia. x 1/4" Inch Quick Release Hex Shank Amana Tool no. 55227
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1-1/2” Dia. Mini Insert Carbide Spoilboard Surfacing, Rabbeting, Flycutter, Slab Leveler & Surface Planer with 1/4" Shank Amana Tool Router Bit no. RC-2248
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1/8" Dia. Solid Carbide, Spektra™ Coated Plastic Cutting Up-Cut Spiral Flute Router Bit No. 51416-K
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Feed Rate (IPM): 100
Speed (RPM): 18,000
Chip Load (Per Tooth): 0.005"
Ramp Down (IPM): 50
1/4" Dia. Solid Carbide, Spektra™ Coated Plastic Cutting Up-Cut Spiral Flute Router Bit No. 51404-K
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Feed Rate (IPM): 200
Speed (RPM): 18,000
Chip Load (Per Tooth): 0.010"
Ramp Down (IPM): 100
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Thank you for the video. I found your info on cutting speeds and the bits used for acrylic extremely helpful. Now I’m off to spend more money for my cnc👍. Oh yeah, great sign👌
Great to hear! Than you for sharing.
Thanks so much for the encouragement!
Great video, Tyson! Thanks for the full breakdown!
Totally spent waaaaay too much money on new bits after watching this. Thanks for all the info, the Super glue / tape technique is super helpful!
Awesome haha ! Enjoy!
Thanks for letting me know! I’m so glad you found it helpful
Can i order one??
Your whats app contact details?
Awesome job Tyson! It’s crazy to think I have the same machine but have not done any project nearly this amazing!
I dont mean to be offtopic but does anyone know a way to get back into an instagram account..?
I stupidly forgot my login password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me
@Elliott Mack Instablaster :)
@Tyler Cairo I really appreciate your reply. I found the site through google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff now.
Seems to take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Tyler Cairo it did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy:D
Thank you so much, you really help me out!
@Elliott Mack happy to help :)
Totally cool!
Thank you Angie!
Very good 👏👏👏
Hello, you mentioned that you made the insert letter smaller to fit in the cutout section. How much small did you make the cut outs so they fit in flush? I was thinking about trying to do it where I pocketed the main board then cut the letter out using the inside options instead of the actual line of the letter. I thought this would make the letters smaller so it would fit in the pockets cut out. Haven’t tried it yet but thought to ask about your process first. Thanks....oh I am using carbide create software
Hey Griffin! So I totally know what you are talking about and actually thought to try that method as well, but I then realized that the space would be probably half of the diameter of the bit I was using. Does that make sense? Meaning, if I cut it on the line using a 1/8" bit then I sort of cut 1/16" on either side of the line, then if I cut the other piece out on the inside toolpath like you mentioned then hypothetically I would have that ~1/16" gap still. If however, I was using a 1/4" bit then that gap would be even bigger. So all of that to say, it may totally work you just might have better results the smaller the bit you use. Unfortunately, I am not sure how to offset carve in Carbide Create. I am using vCarve Pro and thankfully there is a little box where I can tell it to offset the cut and I offset the cut by -.030 (negative). The voids were pocketed up to the line and then the shapes were cut on the outside line and offset towards the line .030 so that it would shave them just a tad bit smaller so that they would fit. I am still fairly new to all this so there may be a better option. I hope this helps!
Tyson Moore / Builds makes total sense. So if I do the method I wrote then the smaller the bit the better outcome per say. Your info helped a ton thanks!
@@GriffinDesignsLLC I think! Don't quote me for sure because I haven't tried it myself but that's the way my mind is working right now. Good luck man!
A really enjoyable video! If you're running at 1800 RPMs and a feed rate of 200 - but my router tops at 1200 RPMs - should I just drop the feed rate to 130 to make it proportionate?
hob976 that is a great question and makes sense that it might work like that. Unfortunately I don’t know enough about it to say one way or another but sounds like an interesting test! Maybe someone else who reads this who has more knowledge about speeds and feeds can chime in
looks fantastic!
Daithí Lambert thank you so much!
@@TysonMooreBuilds Tyson, How much MDF did you remove per pass with the RC2248? I have the same tool, and it sometimes makes an odd noise when levelling oak... so keen to get info on appropriate passes (feeds & speeds) for as many materials as possible.
@@daithi_mor Great question, so I designed everything for the acrylic in VCarve Pro, but my flattening file is actually in Carbide Create and I just change the dimensions anytime I need MDF flattened. All of that to say, I haven't tested it to know what is best, I just keep using what works for wasteboard flattening. The Carbide file here says the Depth per Pass is 0.040", Stepover 0.675", Feedrate 100.00" , Plungerate 1.00", RPM 12,000 (speed setting 2 on my router)
Where do you purchase the acrylic for projects like this?
Great video. If I didn’t want to do colors like you did with words and the deer would you just cut all the way through the acrylic? I am planning to make a sign for church that has a verse. I was thinking I could just cut all the words out but not sure how it would turn out. Any ideas?
So I may have missing something, but did the front/top circle just lay on the side walls?
How deep is the 1/4 cutting ? That doesnt look like the specification , im ising these bits all the time but i would like to inprove my cuts using ideal depht in every pass
One time I see this patent with super glue and tape. Can you tell me more about it?
Hi sorry I’ve got a Random question ! Can you project visuals onto the top of acrylic ?
pretty random I’m thinking of doing this for moving visuals in a dark room but wasn’t sure if the projector would show up on acrylic.
wow
Nice work
Thank you!
Not having worked with this medium, what did you use to fasten letters and spacer?
I have just been using Starbond adhesives CA glue
Do you make custom signs for people?
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I think you misspelled Merry Christmas.
Why u never use sticker it make a signboard? If they want change it, just change front sticker.
Really cool! What program did you use for the design and what was your offset tolerance! Thank you!
Stephen James thank you sir! So I used VCarve Pro software and made the cuts using the “outside / right” toolpath and set the “allowance offset” to -.030. I could have probably cut it even closer but I was just happy that it fit down in the cutout. I didn’t want to push my luck trying to get a perfect fit :-D
Thanks Tyson, I use Aspire and I have a few projects I need to inlay!
Stephen James that’s awesome! I don’t know anything about Aspire but let me know if you figure out an even better fit! I would definitely test it first as you might prefer a closer fit than I got with mine. Thanks again for watching!
What was the whole new level to which you pushed your CNC?
I had never cut a project like this with it before. Might be simple to some but was the first inlay acrylic project I have done
You are based in america?
Hi Tyson, awesome video. In the description, it says you use 1/4", 1/8" and 1/16" acrylic. The 1/4" is the circle and 1/8" for the outside. What size are the inlays? Any recommended vendors for the acrylic? Is the white acrylic the #7328?
Costing??
Thank you to Tyson Moore for programming and CNC machining, then assembling this LED lit sign! Check out more of his work here: th-cam.com/channels/Apta-ByYjX4L7lx2FR5_vw.html