So Ian came over again this weekend with a weird project – he wanted to make some protective plastic covers for photographic filters, which is easy enough, but he wanted to try engraving them.
I had never done engraving with the mill, but Ian had mentioned it before, and I had been meaning to try it, so I already had purchased some engraving bits. All in all I thought the engraving came out ok. Main lesson learned is I need to make some specialty mounting fixtures for working with thin stock.
Normally I used double sided tape, but Ian wanted to preserve surface finish on the soft plastics so we ended up making a jig from wood to hold the parts.
This post is mostly a reminder to make such a jig in the future.
