Cutting with diamond ... stylus pressure .. weight ..
Santa was very gracious and brought me a myshank stylus and blanks. He must somehow overlooked a few of my deeds last year Anyway .. the FAQ on myshank's web site suggests a max. weight of 14 grams - which is very low based on my previous experiences cutting lacquers. I usually adjust the weight with a kitchen scale under the (Grampian) head and usually set it to about 30+ grams for cutting lacquers. If I set it to 14 grams, my Grampian almost floats and it will start to jump very, very easy.
So either I am misreading something, or I am doing the measuring wrong or those diamonds styli are cutting into the plastic like a butter knife. In any way - I though I ask before I do something wrong.
Michaela
So either I am misreading something, or I am doing the measuring wrong or those diamonds styli are cutting into the plastic like a butter knife. In any way - I though I ask before I do something wrong.
Michaela
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Re: Cutting with diamond ... stylus pressure .. weight ..
hey Michaela,
looks like you use pretty same setup as I am, and back in the days I had same problem... and cut a lot with about 60gramms !!
yep, but anyway I got about 200hrs from Steven's styli ))) Steven was surprised
you can solve this weight issue with adding more counterweight, not sure how many I have added, but think around 50gr.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7-V3HakD41BSHMzOFNHYlpWZ3M/view?usp=sharing
now I have exact 14gr and that is good enough !
S
looks like you use pretty same setup as I am, and back in the days I had same problem... and cut a lot with about 60gramms !!
yep, but anyway I got about 200hrs from Steven's styli ))) Steven was surprised
you can solve this weight issue with adding more counterweight, not sure how many I have added, but think around 50gr.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7-V3HakD41BSHMzOFNHYlpWZ3M/view?usp=sharing
now I have exact 14gr and that is good enough !
S
Best !
Re: Cutting with diamond ... stylus pressure .. weight ..
Thanks for the info. Will try it out. So obviously those diamonds do cut the blanks like a hot knife the butteruvoscillator wrote: now I have exact 14gr and that is good enough !
S
Michaela.
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Re: Cutting with diamond ... stylus pressure .. weight ..
Yes, they do!mischmerz wrote:
Thanks for the info. Will try it out. So obviously those diamonds do cut the blanks like a hot knife the butter
Michaela.
Anyway i cut with MyShank styluses at about 16 to 20 gr with great results.