How To Engrave Letters In Wood With A Router
Push down slowly until the knife bottoms out in the wood.
How to engrave letters in wood with a router. Engraving is when you use a typically 60 degree or 90 degree V-bit that goes along the center line of each letter and creates a V-groove that defines the letter. Design template or letter. Cleaning of The Routed Letter.
First spray-paint the characters as shown below preferably a color that will contrast with the finished wood tone. If you are to make several letters with a plunge router you need to move your workpiece and tighten with the clamp every time you start routing a new letter. Trace the contour lines onto the workpiece using carbon paper so that you can then rout the picture into the wood.
They are available in HW or HS. Crouch down and focus on the point where the bit will contact the wood. Amana Tool 45630 Solid Carbide 30 Degree Engraving 0005 Tip Width x 18 SHK x 2-14 Inch Long Signmaking Router Bit More info.
It would be nice if I could apply a darker stain to the inside of the letters than Im using on the rest of the wood in this way but I dont think it would really wipe off outside of the letters. When the paint has fully dried plane or sand the sign to remove only enough material to reveal clean wood as shown at bottom. You may need a bit with a smaller flat or even reduce the angle from 30 degrees to 20 or even 15 degrees.
So once you are done with one letter remove the clamp place the next letter under the router and tighten the clamp. In our example a script cutter is used to rout pictures or script into wood. Its actually a little more complex than that but it gives the general idea.
Wood burner A pen-shaped wood burner gives a distinct shape and color to the engraved letters on planks of wood and is easy to use for first-time engravers. Turn the router on. Push and pull the router along sliding it gently along your pencil lines.