3D letter carving

More about the pantograph: woodgears.ca/pa...
Carving letters with variable depth of cut on my 3D pantograph. I used my stencil maker to get the shapes: ttp://woodgears.ca/stencil
Plans for the pantograph: woodgears.ca/pa...

[@killiemon]

Holy crap, everytime I think I've learned all I can from Matthias Wandel, I stumble across another obscure video from years ago and there he is, holding a frickin hand plane to a part spinning in a drill press. Just amazing all the little gems of ingenuity hidden in your videos Matthias, thanks

[@matthiaswandel]

Please watch my other videos about the 3d pantograph, and you will see how depth control works.

[@matthiaswandel]

Click on the link in the description to get to where you can buy the plans.

[@matthiaswandel]

Watch my other videos on the pantograph. Inform yourself before making satements like that.

[@gwmgbwi]

Made one for my Dremel years ago and have used it for very important projects. I can’t thank Matthias enough!

[@sportygirldiana1]

I truly admire the skill , craftmanship and the patience. (Alex from Elegance Woodworks in Montreal) and we have a CNC , yet I still respect your ingenuity.

[@matthiaswandel]

Yes. Please follow the link in the description for more info.

[@jeffbeck6501]

The results speak for themselves. The cuts look surprisingly smooth and good.

[@TheThoridian]

dude you are the man, I wish I had half your talent of design and the ability to turn your ideas into a machine that actually does what it was made to do. bravo sir keep it up.

[@PinhasGold]

Hi Matias, Thanks for sharing with us this movie among all of your numerious others ideas and tooling. I 've just aquired the pantograph plans and not only did I enjoyed building it I found it very steady, precise and does what it was planed to do very efficiently as well. I adapted the mounting holes to accomodate an Asaki router which is 65 mm diameter all over top and base. I'm trying now to build 3d ornaments template to decorate furniture parts in my shop.

[@canoelew2288]

So this is what you guys do in Canada during the winter, unseriously .............. You're one of the smartest guys I've run across on KZbin, seriously!...Thanks for sharing..........

[@lukacarroll]

my god, you know how to make a job easy. youre a genius.

[@Croz1007]

You are one smart guy. You do some amazing work with creating your own jigs and other custom tool add-ons.

[@matthiaswandel]

That would help, but flattening the bottoms of the letters is hard to do with a pointy bit. A think I keep thinking about is wherever the lines meet at a T-intersection (such as a T on p or q), the stylus dives a bit at the intersection, which looks not quite right. So I always manually hold it up to gun straight along the straight line.

[@jamest.5001]

how could anyone dislike this? I bet those who disliked. can't do anything them selves. keep up your awesomeness! I so want to follow your creations . thanks

[@czar89031]

you are really a genius master Matthias,. one day i will set my retirement in Thailand, you will be my sole teacher in this woodworking, so beautiful.

[@cynthiaferguson7440]

This is very inventive. We own a sign shop in Southern California and have to send out stuff out to get done....I often day dream of having the ability to do more custom fabrications in-house.

[@matthiaswandel]

Since when are things without concave surfaces not 3d? I guess you would call a sphere a 2d object then? And does carving something into a surface not count as concave?

[@matthiaswandel]

Nope, always the same ratio as the magnification. But the plywood everything is on has to be flat. If it has a twist, the depth varies from left to right.

[@matthiaswandel]

Best explained by watching my other videos.

[@ivan2003ad1]

Congrats.. Thats a great job you do with the custom made pantograph. I have one in my company and was awesome working whit this machine..Now we change to a CNC router and there´s no emotion on the work..!!!

[@matthiaswandel]

Both the router and the follower tilt, so the carved shape is still accurate. Sure, something more complex could be designed, but you have to ask, is triple the complexity for questionable benefit (and a likely loss in accuracy) desirable?

[@zeratul575]

once i get the money and the tools im defienently building this. seriously all your tools look great and love watching and rewatching them because there so interesting

[@matthiaswandel]

For this technique, definitely not. The follower cone rides against the edges of the letters. For my inlay technique (see inlays with the router pantograph), boxboard will do.

[@VladimirRadulovic_si]

I can't wait to see the violin neck come to shape! Thanks for your work.

[@imlivingyourlife7354]

About halfway through I realized that I had done too many bong hits in my early years because their shit is over my head. I'm happy to see some people with Incredible talent and this guy definitely has talent.

[@paulytwotanks]

Your machine and technique for forming these letters is excellent, so please don't get defensive when I point out that you and Kiboz2000 are both right and both wrong! You are spot on when you say you are producing 3D letters, because the cutter you are using is 3 dimensional in shape. I think the point Kiboz was trying to make is that you are producing them using a 2 dimensional pattern. So the 3D shape is 'formed' rather than 'cut'. It's really difficult to explain, but I do see both points.

[@jankas64]

Thanks for both copy carver and pantographplans:-) your worth every penny and it will be fun to make too. Keep on making sturdy wood machines :-)

[@adolfojauregui6733]

Dear Mr. Matthias: for me it is a pleasure to greet you and show my respects to admire their ingenious person thanks to the gift that leads him to create many useful things for you and for us my regards and my respect teacher wit

[@manuelzapata8272]

Sr Matthias es Ud un genio de la carpintería!! Gracias por compartir tus conocimientos. Tengo un proyecto de fabricar silla mecedora de " base fija" ¿ acaso tiene planos de alguna? o algún vídeo al respecto?. Saludos.

[@lajosgy3062]

Amazing job.... brilliant idea and professional preparation. Congratulations!

[@HavokTheorem]

I've noticed that you seem to be keen to use every trick in the book to avoid using your lathe! Hand plane and drill press is a good one

[@kwaaaa]

in CNC'ing terms, it's called 2.5D (between 2D and 3D) as there is no possibility of overhang and complex contours other than the ones created by the groove changes of the template.

[@hassleoffa]

I've done a couple small signs by hand ... takes FOREVER!

[@nripenkalita5250]

Certainly wood work reaching a golden days with golden value &service

[@alderdeer]

looks absolutely fantastic, a nice piece of kit that makes a tough job look very easy

[@matthiaswandel]

Once I designed it and had the plans on paper, surprisingly little time. Less than a day.

[@cerssalsa]

hi mat, with each video of you I am surprised your woodworking skills and make incredible tools. although I do not speak much English, try to interpret your ideas to the fullest, to apply in your teaching something, and I'm starting in this art so beautiful. a greeting from Cali, Colombia

[@DrxSlump]

I work on 3D printing and I find this equally fascinating and wonderful!

[@MrDpoling]

That is such a great idea to just make letters as you need them!

[@joezbackwith2gatz]

Wow man. You have major skills. Thanks for sharing.

[@matthiaswandel]

That's what the text article is for. Try following the link.

[@matthiaswandel]

Yes. See the article.

[@digger120605]

You, my friend, are a woodworking Genius ! I would love to have the router pantograph and ligs that I see you use in the background. You are Amazing. I am a disabled, older man, with a fixed income, that has basic tools, looking to create beautiful, and useful things that people will remember me by. You, young man, have given me Ideas and hope. Thank you so much. Maybe ,just maybe with your plans and tutorials, I can take my woodworking skills and be remembered....

[@nileshachouhan9740]

Good

[@williamhoward8319]

i love all the things that you make and wait for new ones

[@deleetmeeh]

I'd love to see you and the Wood Whisperer make a video together. Not sure what it would be but I know I'd watch it. Great video I enjoyed it.

[@matthiaswandel]

It's a very small angle, not noticeable by eye.

[@michaelosullivan8288]

That is best ever seen so far and I loved how you you drillpress with plane it's tricky ideas and now I can try build same so can do some of me skulls project for my car

[@notaflightmedic]

You are a genius sir! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and love of the craft!

[@TristanJCumpole]

Yes, the shape of the v-groove bit is not ideal in that respect. I didn't think about the problem of crossing lines dropping the styles, however it does make sense as to why this would be a problem. A pre-defined maximum depth of cut on the stylus would allay this to a greater degree but leave pyramids and other little nibs to clean up. You mention that the weight of the router and the mechanism bears on the stylus. Perhaps counterbalancing would be useful here?

[@nikeshshalom9787]

Hi.im wood carving worker.y r idea vry itrested.very goooooood

[@allenkuki7525]

you're genius Mr. Mathias.

[@cncsamplesvideos5055]

I actually found this fascinating to watch. I am so used to seeing a CNC router do it.

[@matthiaswandel]

It does 3D. Watch the other videos, and you will see.

[@mgazifdreem]

personally, this video helped me more than i can expected. Thank you

[@tibebuatirsaw3493]

all your projectes are amizing & I tried to made a copy corve achin more or less it is nice 10p for your helping

[@warrudoz]

Como siempre Matthias muy ingenioso, felicidades.

[@JimB73C]

Well done! Excellent all around!

[@almirdervisevic4959]

I knew it how is going to work before playing video nice work

[@codgerwrinkly1653]

Jaw dropping work sir!!!! Absolutely amazing....

[@EyeAmBatman]

your a genius... modern day Da Vinci if u ask me... Keep up great work... subbed

[@itsmepreston89]

very impressed! this is awesome.. really cool that you can change the scale! Great job!

[@ignilc]

@Matthiaswandel Well you wouldn't necessarily have to go CNC. With a milling machine you could make the templates much quicker, and with infinite freedom.

[@matthiaswandel]

Should be possible. Just make the hole for the router smaller, and figure out how to clamp in a dremel tool

[@iTzDaNiiLo]

Truly a work of art. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@ppdan]

He has a 3 axis system so that clearly makes it 3D!

[@atihun2820]

I started to believe that you can sent to sky a planet from wooden too, congrulation you and following your project with pleasure

[@matthiaswandel]

Are you referring to downgrading to fixed spacing from proportional spacing?

[@loverlangenkalkoen]

This is a quite old method actually, used alot in factories before computer driven machines. Also when something extremely small had to be carved in something. Nice work tough :p

[@silverhammermba]

Can't wait to see some other applications!

[@DavidMcCann31]

Respects Matthias...great work!

[@kennyrobert9017]

wow, very niceeeeee .. i like it . i want try at home . good jobs brothers !

[@forestlampcraft472]

Did i tell you that you are my woodworking hero? lol

[@S4B3R117]

Wow, really cool stuff man.

[@Deadguess]

Very nice and neat !!!

[@stanleykennedy7327]

Looks great, keep them comming

[@Shamanmagic95]

Scientific, informative, and interesting as always. Thanks for another great innovation and example video!

[@jimmymahogany5722]

That is really cool!

[@StefsEngineering]

Wonderfull technique. I like the hands on method. Have you ever considered a CNC router? It's not that hard to make one or not the expensive to buy one.

[@deserty7883]

This is so cool :D I MUST build this soon!

[@mehmetalperenduran9912]

Really perfect work!!!

[@matthiaswandel]

Just a regular 1/4" bandsaw blade.

[@fgriffintx]

I can't quite tell how you screw together your letter holder/carrier. Do you screw into the bases of some of the letters or is there a layer of wood underneath the letter backings?

[@johnstephantes101]

That is very cool. Love your channel. Thanks!

[@Airmanmx1]

beautiful work man

[@kjlsdgfklshjdklflklj]

Hey Matthias Can you think up some more fun things to do on the 3-D Pantorouter. I know you put a lot of work into it and I love watching it work man. I am in the middle of buying a new house and have a 4 year old so I havent had the time to make one with your plans yet....Its still on my Bucket list to make. lol Maybe you can think of something neat to make.. Maybe try and make a gear! Well your creative.. think of somethings to try.... Thanks man

[@fatehrzabeyli3483]

Wooowwww Super work...

[@matthiaswandel]

When I figured out a neat way of doing it.

[@Daisuken92]

This is simply genius!

[@TrentonJamesWollman]

Thats Awesome! I wanna carve letters too

[@rommelfcc]

Cool. Did you ever try laminating a thin (maybe about 2 mm) peace of lite colored wood on your work surface to give the letters more contrast?

[@nitinrajeev5609]

great work man .

[@Cancun771]

Have you ever done this with multiplex plyboard? With layers of different colours that come out depending on how deep the router bit goes... it might look amazing.

[@friedchicken1]

would you say its easy to follow letters or numbers printed on paper? could that turn out precise if you're careful?

[@genesizstudiospvt.ltd.2506]

wow superb...love his..keep up good work..cheeers

[@rachidmah]

Very nice work

[@raforafo1473]

It´s so easy, Good job.

[@BrunoBsso]

Nice job!!!!!!!!!

[@Martin19990]

Your videos are genius man :D

[@RomuloCrispim77]

Very good Mathias, enjoyed their Video pantografo. and I saw another inversion of the circular saw. just sign up, I am Brazilian and I do not speak English, I am using the translator. very inspiring solutions that you create and develop. Congratulations.