THE 3DWAXMILLER CLUB.

2009 will be a banner year, In hard times and in good times people need to pull together. We millers have a great opportunity to show how the MDX-15 can help independent jewelers to compete with the big guys. I hope you had a Happy Christmas and will have a Merry New Year. Clients were tighter than ...

Welcome Todd, Read and load the designs that others have posted. Aslo check out the FTP files for goodies. Keep a notebook and put ideas there. Date your ideas. This is important if you later want to copyright items, or if your design was ripped off. I use my rotary a lot. I also have made a collect...

Many years ago many Americans, British, Aussies, and Chinese felt the sting of war. It is a time of reflection and thanksgiving for the sacrifices of many of our partents and grand parents who have fought to give us our current freedoms and dignity. I come from a family who ended up in a concentrati...

Fellow millers, Each of us who own and use the MDX series of cutters as well as other Roland products, Rhino programs, and other support software have been able to seek new markets, do works that were not possible without the Roland products. Whether we are physically sound, handicapped, or suffer f...

Welcome Big Badger or Little Badger, We welcome you to the forum, keep a notebook, look at posts, download 3de files etc. look at their logic, ask questions and think about shortcuts, nothing is dumb, this website has opened new ways to use the MDX roland machines. Freedom to ask, share, and grow is...

Don,
Great idea and outcome, like the idea of stones at compas points, also
think that waves could be nice as background for piece, then trnasparent Ceramit for a faux guilloche effect. ..thanks for sharing...Winstone

Hi Nick, If no one has welcomed you, then I welcome you, I was under a rock, and came out to take a deep breath of O2. Well I am back to milling and can only tell you to: Read the posts, ask questions, and above all experiment, we all do it, and learn from each other. We are like a ship of fools, ex...

Pat, If you use the lead of a mechanical pencil and put the hinge wax over it, placing it with the wax prior to casting. The lead will hold the wax in the flask, burnout, but not leave the flask as a void. So when you cast the locket, you will have a smooth ash filled tube where the lead used to be....

Jon and Paul, First Jon, Paul has the right idea with Rhino, but I would make a more open curve so that I could make small drops in the second line. Turning the curve on its side is close to the faux G cut. Then the next curved line moves ever so slightly down which is allowed with an open lazy curv...

Jon, I did something quite simple. I made use of those tools already at my fingertips. You can do this in Windows Paint quite easily. Using the different fonts available I have been playing with the computer keyboard to generate faux guilloche patterns. Here is an example. Under the two vertical das...

Great work, I will show you how I make card faux guilloce patterns and maybe you can show us how you designed that surface in Rhino? My method is centered around use of the Roland package of programs and programs that come with Windows. For those of us who have Rhino, how did you make the guilloche ...

Wonderful work Jon,
Just outstanding, I am so proud to call you a friend. winstone

Wonderful, I love to see American versions of the guilloche. I hope that my inputs have been of help. a] Red enamel is a combination of glass and fine gold. I have some transparant red. Thompson enamel sells this enamel. b] Also if you cut the panels in wax then cast them in fine silver the lines wi...

Over time and with experiments with how real fabric hangs, I found that the center of the swag in the bottom run looks more natural is the slope is not straight across but a gentle sag. Fabric is very plastic or fluid when it makes a swag, so to make the metal work appear to be like fabric a gentle ...

Paul, Here is an experiment for you to try. If you have one of those computers with a "touchpad" instead of a mouse. Make a card like a playing card, take a round hole punch and make evenly spaced half circles down one side. Take some fine sissors and round each area between the cutout 1/2 circles. ...