LED Acrylic Sign Making | ToolsToday (4K)

Tyson cuts the 1/16”, 1/8” and 1/4" thick acrylic on his Carbide 3D Shapeoko CNC machine. The up-cut bits pull the chips up evacuating them from the cut where a down-cut bit forces the acrylic chips down and can potentially melt them together. Evacuating the chips better reduces any excess friction caused by the chips resulting in less of a chance of melting the acrylic. Top edge will stay crisp with an up-cut bit in acrylic.

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Feed, Speed, Chip Load & Step Down CNC Running Parameters

10" x 80 Teeth, Amana Tool Prestige Series with Electro-Blu™ Coating, Carbide Tipped Non-Melt Plastic Cutting M-TCG Grind Saw Blade no. LB10801C

3/8” Dia. Carbide Tipped Countersink with No Burning and No Marring Adjustable Depth Stop with No-Thrust BB, 1/8" Drill Dia. x 1/4" Inch Quick Release Hex Shank Amana Tool no. 55227

1-1/2” Dia. Mini Insert Carbide Spoilboard Surfacing, Rabbeting, Flycutter, Slab Leveler & Surface Planer with 1/4" Shank Amana Tool Router Bit no. RC-2248

1/8" Dia. Solid Carbide, Spektra™ Coated Plastic Cutting Up-Cut Spiral Flute Router Bit No. 51416-K
Feed Rate (IPM): 100
Speed (RPM): 18,000
Chip Load (Per Tooth): 0.005"
Ramp Down (IPM): 50

1/4" Dia. Solid Carbide, Spektra™ Coated Plastic Cutting Up-Cut Spiral Flute Router Bit No. 51404-K
Feed Rate (IPM): 200
Speed (RPM): 18,000
Chip Load (Per Tooth): 0.010"
Ramp Down (IPM): 100

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[BruceAUlrich]

Great video, Tyson! Thanks for the full breakdown!

[darrellsaturnbigfoot]

Thank you for the video. I found your info on cutting speeds and the bits used for acrylic extremely helpful. Now I’m off to spend more money for my cnc👍. Oh yeah, great sign👌

[brianmackie]

Totally spent too much money on new bits after watching this. Thanks for all the info, the Super glue / tape technique is super helpful!

[GriffinDesignsLLC]

Hello, you mentioned that you made the insert letter smaller to fit in the cutout section. How much small did you make the cut outs so they fit in flush? I was thinking about trying to do it where I pocketed the main board then cut the letter out using the inside options instead of the actual line of the letter. I thought this would make the letters smaller so it would fit in the pockets cut out. Haven’t tried it yet but thought to ask about your process first. Thanks....oh I am using carbide create software

[Sroufe]

Awesome job Tyson! It’s crazy to think I have the same machine but have not done any project nearly this amazing!

[ChrisSchultz]

Where do you purchase the acrylic for projects like this?

[hob]

A really enjoyable video! If you're running at 1800 RPMs and a feed rate of 200 - but my router tops at 1200 RPMs - should I just drop the feed rate to 130 to make it proportionate?

[mateuszjackowski]

One time I see this patent with super glue and tape. Can you tell me more about it?

[hnnlong]

Not having worked with this medium, what did you use to fasten letters and spacer?

[davidcochran]

Great video. If I didn’t want to do colors like you did with words and the deer would you just cut all the way through the acrylic? I am planning to make a sign for church that has a verse. I was thinking I could just cut all the words out but not sure how it would turn out. Any ideas?

[bitwoodcnc]

How deep is the 1/4 cutting ? That doesnt look like the specification, im ising these bits all the time but i would like to inprove my cuts using ideal depht in every pass

[njolakoski]

So I may have missing something, but did the front/top circle just lay on the side walls?

[nznsi]

What was the whole new level to which you pushed your CNC?

[joshgrant]

Hi sorry I’ve got a Random question ! Can you project visuals onto the top of acrylic ?

pretty random I’m thinking of doing this for moving visuals in a dark room but wasn’t sure if the projector would show up on acrylic.

[stephenjames]

Really cool! What program did you use for the design and what was your offset tolerance! Thank you!

[smokin]

I think you misspelled Merry Christmas.

[jasonlee]

Why u never use sticker it make a signboard? If they want change it, just change front sticker.

[okctraveler]

Hi Tyson, awesome video. In the description, it says you use 1/4", 1/8" and 1/16" acrylic. The 1/4" is the circle and 1/8" for the outside. What size are the inlays? Any recommended vendors for the acrylic? Is the white acrylic the #7328?