Is CNC an option?

[Leo Voisine]

Brodie,

I work with Swiss turning every day - and yeah that would actually be easy in a Swiss turn machine. It would still need to be programmed and that would be done on CAM.

I also think - if a blank was made out of brass - to length, with ID and OD turned - then the engraving could be done on a 4-th axis CNC router. NOT an indexer, which only turns some 1 or 5 degree increments. A full 4-th is a rotary axis to the machine. AGAIN - programming would be done on CAM.

[Brodie Brickey]

I'd like to thank you all for the replies. You've really helped me understand this a lot better. I'll check further into 'Swiss Turning' and 'tekcast spin casting'.

As for metal, I was leaning toward brass and then plating as required.

Thanks again to everyone.