Not completely finished. And hope the next one will come out a little cleaner. Cut on my Primo with a 1/4” 60° V bit. [image] Wife got fancy with the photography and did good! Trying to make things look good and start selling to pay back for all these machines lol.

0.6 nozzle. I probably printed at 0.36 layer height. I have a small printer, so I printed in 2 parts and epoxied together [image] Louisiana LR3 build - Orange/Black/Blue YZ Plates I decided I was going to print my YZ plates for temporary use to mill my own later. Since I have a small printer, I…

Did you add some kind of notch or slot (tongue and groove) to the two halves or just butt joint them? Without pulling up the DXF/cut files I have a 250220220mm print capability on my Anycubic Kobra 2 Neo which also has a very good print speed - is my build platform big enough to print in one piece?

I split the model as shown in the Printables link that was in the post above. [image]

JJ, as I said, Wife did a super job on this, but sometimes fitting text to a shape area messes with the perspective, so I spent a little time to “tweak” the kerning and lettering at the top to read a little straighter. Hope you don’t mind me messing with your Wife’s fine work. [break_in_v2]

My wife didn’t make the sign, it was an SVG off Etsy. She gets fancy with the photography LOL. As far as making the plates I can sure try. I just don’t know when LOL. I have another 2ish weeks home before I’m back off shore for 4 weeks. We will see if I can get to it before I leave or not. Can…

[image] Philipp: frog plates. Green anodised and laser etched! :face_with_spiral_eyes:

Looks like you used a softwood like pine or fir. Use furniture grade hardwood like alder or beech if you want better detail. You can also mask the board before you carve with stencil film. This is a trick of the pros, and what I do. Stain or paint the board with a non oil base product (the stenci…