single direction bevel cutting

[Wichman]

Have any of you used the single direction bevel cutting technique? I've seen this technique is Spielman's books using it for letters; the bevel is the same for all the cuts, i.e. left, right and a spiral blade must be used. This gives the letters a shadow effect. I'd like to try it on a couple of project and don't want to reinvent the wheel.

Thanks in advance.

[preprius]

This sounds fun.

Show examples please.

I have done angled cuts for bowls and relief inlay.  I like using spiral blades.  So why does this technique need spiral blades?

 

 

[Wichman]

The only pictures I have are copyrighted. I'll have to cut out a letter to show what I mean.

 

[preprius]

Oh with some more thought and imagination, I can see how a spiral blade needs to be used....

Keep letters oriented bottom toward you.   Angle the table to left or right. 

When cutting the sides of the letters without spinning the wood, the letters will be angled.

When cutting the top you don't spin the wood. You just use side of spiral blade to go across top and bottom. 

Thanks you got me thinking.

 

[preprius]

ok I tried this angle the table using 15 deg.  

It is hard to get a picture because the lens is not centered over each letter.

Spiral blade.

15 deg left.

wood is cheap pine ... shim stock.  

wood is always oriented bottom letters toward front of saw. 

[Wichman]

It's hard to tell from the picture, but, how well did the slant show up? Does it need to be more slanted?  What size spiral blade did you use?

Thanks in advance.

[preprius]

blade 2/0.

My thought is the slant is need to be more on thinner wood. The thicker the wood the less angle.  

The camera is over the "I" (above).  So that shows the slant.

 

Here is more pics.  Alien is centered, then the "I" is centered. 

 

Edited December 14, 2021 by preprius
added pic and descriptions.

[Wichman]

I finally got a chance to work on this. The angles do not show up well in the photos, but here it is.

 

25*angle, 3/4 maple, 2/0 FD new spiral blades:

[preprius]

Yes the 25 deg gives it a better emphasis of 3d.

You can use it on letters on plaques.  Left side of plaque with right tilt, and on the right side of plaque left tilt.  So when viewing the plaque the viewer see emphasized perpective.  

How are you going to use this technique?

Me.

Mark Eason

[Wichman]

I was thinking of using the technique on ornaments. This technique, at present, cannot be done with a laser, so, no competition for this style.

 

[Foxfold]

Way past my skill level !! I'll just use the shadow effect text, for someone as hamfisted as me it's an easier alternative. 

Edited January 19, 2022 by Foxfold

[Dave Monk]

I think this might be what you are talking about.

[Fab4]

I'm with Brenda on this one - to me this is much simple - I do not use spirals
But I will say, that when the bevel cuts are done right, it does look awesome as seen above
Fab4

[preprius]

4 hours ago, Dave Monk said:

I think this might be what you are talking about.

 

Dave Monk is that a relief technique?  That looks great.

 

[Dave Monk]

1 hour ago, preprius said:

Dave Monk is that a relief technique?  That looks great.

 

I had to look that term up. Yes it is.  Sorry.........I didn't understand the original post.

[preprius]

This is me learning.  Your feedback is always welcome.

In fact I like the relief better. 

Me.

Mark Eason.