fishscale wallet back embossing plate

[Nicolas Silva]

This is a new wallet back embossing plate for leatherworking. It was cut into delrin using a 1/16 bullnose bit.
I took a fishscale (or dragonscale if you prefer) checkering pattern and transfered it over.
I've added a closeup of the scales. I'm thinking of redoing this and adding just a hit of a
border to better protect thos outside scales, but otherwise pretty pleased with it.
Cheers!
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[Bill Munroe]

You should be pleased with it, Nicolas. Nice work! I've done some scales with the laser, but never tried it with the CNC. Did you use gray scale artwork?

[Nicolas Silva]

Thanks Bill,
Yes & No. In this case I imported a gray scale bitmap which I converted to a 3d model in Aspire.
The gray scale bitmap was GRACIOUSLY provided to me by the guys at Epilog laser along with the
checker and french checker files they have used in other projects.
Cheers!

[Bill Munroe]

Thanks, Nicolas. I'll have to give that a shot. I've converted several reliefs to gray scale and then lasered them, but never the reverse!

[Mike Heidrick]

Very Nice Nicolas!

[Nicolas Silva]

thanks all. and call me Nick.