Engraving Stone Memorials & Plaques

[Tony Mac]

Customer Ricky Bennett (SCANCAD in the UK) is using VCW to engrave Memorials and Plaques on a Newing Hall Pantocut 4E with a Beyerholm & Moe Microstep controller.

Ricky is very happy with the results and commented,

"VCarve Wizard has enabled our memorial department to v carve letters on memorial plaques and headstones in Stone, Brass, Bronze and Wood."

"We consider it a vital and new ability to CNC machine V cut letters over traditional sandblasting and hand cutting."

Recent memorial projects Ricky has machined using VCW are shown below,

Hope this is interesting to the community,

Tony Mac

[BCwanderer]

What type of cutter do you use for stone cutting.
What feed rate and depth of cut are you able to use?
Thanks for any info!

[Tony Mac]

Hi,

The stone examples have been cut using a 90 degree included angle carbide tool running at approximately 500mm / min (20" / min). Each of the 2 examples are approximately 450mm x 300mm (18" x 12") with 25mm (1") high lettering and took around 30 minutes to engrave.

One of the examples shows York stone which can be resonably hard and this was cut in 2 passes to a depth of approximately 3mm (1/8th).

The other example is Nebressina and this is soft enough to be cut in a single hit.

Hope this helps,

Tony Mac

[Tony Mac]

More pictures of the work Ricky is doing with VCarve Wizard.

"These are the first full size memorials I've engraved."

"The Software is excellent and I look forward to using it every time. It, of course, is really satisfying to have such first class results, especially off my dear old Pantocut! 21 years old !!"