Modular Branding Iron With Swappable Date
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2024
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Using my CNC router, I made a brass branding iron of my logo with a changeable date.
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FEEDS & SPEEDS
I used Easel Pro to carve all the parts for the branding iron, in 360 brass. Below are the bits I used, with feeds and speeds as recommended by G-Wizard (tinyurl.com/y2.... Please note these are a starting point. I plan to refine this in the future, and possibly try different bits.
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DPP: .008"
RPM: 23,000
Feed: 46 ipm
Plunge: 24 ipm (5 deg. ramp)
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DPP: .008"
RPM: 10,000
Feed: 15 ipm
Plunge: 7 ipm (5 deg. ramp)
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Nice solution. All creative people have to make a thing backwards not backwards periodically. It never goes away no matter how many times you do it.
Great project Wesley….thanks for posting. One frustrating thing with branding irons is what to do if the burn/brand does not come out as dark as you would like. Repositioning the brand in the exact same position to get a bit darker can be difficult. I made a small frame from wood that my brand nestles into. I clamp the frame to my project and then my branding iron can be lifted and placed again in the exact same location.
I had the same thought. That's a good idea. 👍
I use a cheap infrared thermometer gun to check the temperature of my branding iron as I heat it up. That way I'm (mostly) sure of getting a good brand on the first try. 580°F seems good for branding wood.
@@KarlBunker Interesting, I could also see adding a $10 bbq grill thermometer via a hole in the back. Some of them go up past 800F. That way you can always see how hot it is or if it is cooling down too much.
I am a real turner, I do on average 400 items a month. I use carbide. Screw the haters, I ain't got time for that :-)
If carbide is good enough for stainless steel it's fine for wood lol. I've never seen a bit break yet
+1 for the harddrive noises
I've been wanting to do the same exact thing and struggled with the same exact problem on the date. I was thinking I'd have to make a pocket that the year sat into, but I like this method better.
Thanks for putting in the feeds/speeds and bits!!
Fantastically amazing editing in this video! Oh, and also a cool project. :)
Thanks!
Congratulations on the successful time-travel machine! Awesome project!
Nice brand. And on the bright side: In the year SS0S, you are set😁
Hey, Merry Christmas to ya!
Great film. So well done and entertaining. Nice design on the branding iron. I'm glad you'll be making things for thousands of years to come. : ) Mahalo for sharing! : )
A proof of concept, which works. Well done sir 👏👏👍😀
That trick for drilling brass, also works really well on Perspex.
am I the only one who's losing their ever-lovin' mind waiting for Chris to make some real forward motion on his antikythera mechanism?
As usual, a. 100% enjoyable vid, Mr. Treat.
Not sure I know Chris, but I sure would like to see a real life antikythera mechanism. The files for one are on thingiverse.
@@WildmanTech Wesley mentioned Clickspring, which is a channel belonging to beloved Aussie home-machinist and horologist, Chris. He is an amazing craftsman who has been building an antikythera for a few years now, even making his own reasonably period-accurate tools for the build. You absolutely must check his channel out. It’s a moral imperative.
Edit: here’s a link for you: ua-cam.com/users/Clickspring
The ultimate plot twist at the turning stage would be for the material turned by the not real wood turner, using not real wood turning tools, to turn out to not be real wood. Either plastic or MDF.
Cool project. Now I want to make my own. I will have to figure out if my classic X-Carve could do it.
7:20 smooooth!
Pretty dang good.
Very cool!
Maybe a couple of socket head cap screws will nestle together better on the year block.
Was thinking the same.
100% you messed up the 2022 orientation to make that sweet photoshop clip. LOL. Loved it.
Also. I was sort of hoping that the 2017 was going to be messed up but didn't find out until after it was branded. LMAO. I love some good old fashioned art mistakes.
Thanks! Believe it or not, it was an honest dumb. But, now I'm learning I may have accidentally stolen the follow-up joke from This Old Tony?
@@WesleyTreat : Hah, and here I was going to go back and rewatch to see if all the footage of milling it was flipped. :)
I wouldn't worry about "stealing" This Old Tony's joke. He does that kind of "impossible shortcut" gag at least once a video, so at this point it would be hard to think of one where he _hadn't_ done something similar, and the maker-video world would be needlessly impoverished if that meant nobody else could do them, or could be inspired by his type of humor.
I'm assuming you picked up that handy "flip it in post" technique from This Old Tony. I was always fond of that one.
Oh no, did I inadvertently steal a joke?
@@WesleyTreat Not to worry, Tony has plenty to spare.
ua-cam.com/video/1mZhOlr5v-s/v-deo.html
Whew, ok good. Different execution. I was afraid I may have internalized a visual gag from years ago and accidentally recreated the whole thing. Would have never heard the end of it. 😆
@@WesleyTreat I assumed it was a loving tribute to Tony's gag. Either way, it was good.
Yo Wesley. New to finding your channel. Digging the humor amd your content..
Q: have you done any of these brands for folks like me??? Have you considered it?
You used all the good tools in this episode. I don't know anything about building. But could you use those headless screws for the date?
If you mean set screws, they wouldn't work because the holes in the mounting plate aren't threaded, so there would be nothing to hold the screw. In the end, one screw worked fine because the cutout for the date piece came out more accurate than I expected. It doesn't rotate at all like I had anticipated.
@@WesleyTreat Thank you for helping to clear that up. Set screws. That I'll remember.
For a guy that works with his hands, they sure are clean and In good shape..Are these really your hands or do you have some sort of "Hand Model" taking your place? LOL... love the videos..
Just good lighting ✋🤚
impressed with ur drill press, what brand and model is it????
It's a Nova Viking. Picciuto convinced me to get one. I love it.
👍👍👍👍👍👍 ya know when you try to use that as a jack stand for your truck those welds are gonna break
I'm sho irreshponshible
Great idea. The only other upgrade is scratch a big giant W T on the back so you know which way is up... :-)
Yeah, I always have to double check!
I love the videos! I made one of these recently but I ran into a problem with mine where the handle is flat because I didn't have a lathe at the time but my branding iron doesn't index parallel to the flat side but I'm struggling on how to fix it I could keep cutting down the threaded rod but don't want to run out of it.
Set screw in the side of the handle, maybe?
@@WesleyTreat that’s a good ide thanks for the tip I’ll have to give that a try
Lets Go Branding
Ah, yes. A Wesley Treat original, produced in the year ZZOZ.
Would Aluminum work as well I wonder? I have that on hand. Would love to do my first metal machining to achieve the same function.
Aluminum can work, but it can tend to warp after several uses.
@@WesleyTreat Ahh good point. I have been trying to get a suitable toolpath in Vectric V carve Pro and its not straight forward. I'll try w/6061 T651 first just for laughs and order some bar stock from McMaster Carr
You shoild see the ricking chair spindles my dad turns on his Shopsmith MkV. He gets a pretty hefty fee for his hand made chairs. So, the "not a real lathe" crowd can go pound sand.
I would suggest cutting a bunch of year plates so in the future you don't have to figure out blank size and hole spacing, but that would necessitate considering how many years plates to make. #ExistentialDread
A lot fancier than my brand, I literally made a branding iron of my initials and logo, for the date I already had a set of small steel numbers i just heat and carefully press into place.
The X carve looks interesting but I dislike any company that won't put any prices up front.
Thanks! I'm not sure what you mean about prices. The starting price is at the top of the X-Carve page (tinyurl.com/2p8mat6f). Then, you choose which options you want to include and the price updates based on your customizations (tinyurl.com/2p952rn4). 👍
Cool
7:15 New 2021 Photoshop feature :-)
Those 2 overlapping screws. You’re leaving them like that ? REALLY ? 😱😭 Ouch, my OCD !
Sure wish I had a CNC mill.
Inventables offers financing now. A lot of people pay theirs off pretty quickly selling simple signs. 👍 www.inventables.com/technologies/x-carve?ref=wtreat
@@WesleyTreat That's not a bad idea. One I need to look into it.
I miss the "Jetson's" sounds...
Why use brass?
I would assume it's because the cnc router will have a much easier time with soft metals than with steel.
Easy to machine and holds the heat better than aluminum.
Gold pressed latinum not in the budget.
Turned out great. Hopfully you get great use out of it for many years. cant wait to see more videos.Keep up the Great Craftsmanship an hard work my friend. Keep Making. God Bless.
Cool. Or hot. Depends.
Definitely not checking the other windows you have open on you computer...
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I chuckle every time you do the “annoying commenter” voice. Every. Time.
Ok, I can tell by the counter how long it took me, to understand why the Logo Said TW instead of WT ... 90 Seconds, It took me 90 Seconds before I realized that not Wesley made a stupid mistake but me *facepalm*
You're supposed to remove the zinc from that nut before you weld it. Granted, I never do. But that's what the internet will tell you.
Someone is confident they will live a very very long time...unless you’re worried about a Y2K problem?