Suitable Font for 60 degree V-bit?

[Peter Meacham]

Looking for suggestions on fonts to use with a 60 degree v-bit on an Elks wall plaque measuring about 16" x 11.25" with 1" and .5" letters on pine material.

I have tried using the Verdana font but I get some chipping and broken letters and it is not too impressive.

I am running 12K speed with a spindle and moving at 1.7ips.

Is a single line font suitable for something like this or are those type fonts mostly for rotary or drag engravers?

Any suggestions please?

[Gary Hair]

I don't think the font is necessarily your problem, I'd be more inclined to look at the material, speed and feed rate instead. Try running your text in some hard maple using multiple passes and see what happens. I would bet that it will work much better than pine. I've never liked working with pine, if I need a light wood I would use maple.

Gary

[Peter Meacham]

Gary

I agree with you on the pine comments - trouble is that this plaque should match the existing plaques on the wall of the Elks lodge. The wood will be stained a tan color to match the other plaques.

[AL Ursich]

Modern Font is a single stroke font. I use it to outline with 2 inch high text and a 3/8 inch flat bottom bit. Looks like a hand routed with a 2 inch plastic stencil.

I use Arial Black for most of my small V60 Text.

AL

[Peter Meacham]

Thanks for your inputs Al and Gary. Appreciate it.