Hi All,
I carve lithophanes with a CNC machine but I've been seeing makers out there showing their lithophanes created with 3-D printing. I personally don't think they are as good. It seems scale...
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Hi All,
I carve lithophanes with a CNC machine but I've been seeing makers out there showing their lithophanes created with 3-D printing. I personally don't think they are as good. It seems scale...
I light my carvings with a 1/4 thick LED light panel. Whenever I'm at an art festival, I often see other artists struggling with various forms of lighting their work. Usually it's some sort of...
Looks like there is a totally new source for Lithophane Backlighting. This is current as of 2013. The other links appear to be dead or out of stock for years now. They are a website called Lithophane...
Update on this thread: There's a new supplier for lighting lithophanes. You can get LED lithophane light panels at a website called Lithophane Lights. They have a small and large size.
Thanks for the feedback. We went ahead and bought the Shark. It's not especially fast and information from photo Vcarve computes differently. For example, a 12% step on the Shark (processed with the...
Thanks, Gerry. I get the opportunity to meet with one of the Rockler people tomorrow.
I appreciate the unbiased feedback from the CNC zone community.
A 6 to 7 hour run time is reasonable to us because it currently takes us 2 hours or so to run an 8" X 10" lithophane with Keling stepper motors.
Also, I have no idea how the word "lithophane" became...
That is totally awesome! I never get tired of looking at lithophanes.
Hi, I'm planning to purchase a new Rockler Shark CNC machine. I currently use larger kit built machine with photoVCarve and Mach 3 for processing. The Rockler machine uses PhotoVCarve and it's own...
Cool! How did you embed that video? I'm trying to figure that out, too.
Here's a video I made of my CNC machining of lithophanes.
CNC Lithophane
What are the other women on this forum making with their CNC machines?
If you want something quick and simple for even lighting you can get the 5 by 7 LED light panel here: Lighting Lithophanes.
It's 30 bucks but works well and comes with a rocker on/off switch.
Hi bsimages,
I said they were out of stock because they were out of stock . . . for many months. I kept looking for the product and it wasn't there. I wanted to buy some!
I kept looking for a good...
Thanks for the heads up!
I've got it working now.
I went to the link there and it looks like they're not being offered anymore.
Check this one out as an alternative:
LED Light Panel 5″ X 7″ | Lithophantastic!
Let me know if they start selling...
I wonder if those bumps are only visible on your original image when enlarged to about 400%? But, they show up on your finished result due to the size of the bit?
I had a problem like that when I...
Wow! This is great work! Thanks for sharing!
You've heard the phrase, "necessity is the mother of invention", right?
Designed and manufactured exclusively for Lithophantastic!**This unique LED light panel is the perfect solution to...