Steel sign

Making a 3/8" plate steel (A36 mild) sign for our mountain in WV. Using a friend's CNC plasma cutter...

Anniversary present for Laura.

36" long on the horizontal.

We had a software glitch and the machine misaligned "layers", but we will try again. Very fun stuff.

Preliminary design at bottom.

Plan to drop a bunch of Cant hooks from the "dead" space and build a half dozen premium tools.

Very cool!

thats neat

Signs in WV aren’t complete without a few bullet holes in them. Just wouldn’t fit in. Still very nice.

Good stuffs. A couple of pointers.

You can do a dry run with the "tool" disabled and preview the cut path. Saves the oopsies moment

Vary the power setting. It doesn't have to cut through on all the cuts for full effect.

Layers. Cut a shape and weld to a base for 3D

Worked out the bugs (for the most part).



3/8" plate steel... sign is 32" wide and 25" tall... about #45.

Cost was per square foot... sign is 5 square feet at $60 per... so $300 for the finished sign.

The plasma tip circulates coolant... some coolant was escaping this circulation and got into the plasma stream so we had a build up of slag as we cut (i.e. that is why the letters didn't drop free). Problem we have to solve yet.

Nice.

That is awesome!

outstanding cash!!!!