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Re: Walter Grabner's new Hi-Tech material

Author: Grabnerwg
Date: 2019-12-19 17:20

NOTE 1/29/21

This thread is completely out of date.

I am now producing ALL of my mouthpiece blanks using my own in house printer farm. After a year of research, I found I could produce blanks with measurements as good as a service bureau, and I had far better control in the process and greater access to various materials.

Also, my turnaround on prototypes was hours, not days or weeks!

Right now I am having a great time and producing excellent mouthpiece. Over 500 to date!

More later!

Walter Grabner

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The process of imprinting it on the design of the mouthpiece blank was fascinating, if not a bit arduous.

The point of the logo is that the identifier "Grabner" is my actual signature.

The process went like this:

I wrote my name on a piece of paper using my best handwriting. This was no mean feat since my actual handwriting is almost illegible!

We then scanned the piece of paper to make a common jpg file. To use the image in a CAD program, we had to convert the jpg file to a svg file. Svg files are used in CAD programs for adding text and logos to three dimensional shapes within the CAD program.

In the program, you must size and center the logo directly over where you want the logo to appear. Then using an "extrude" command you must wrap the text/logo around the geometry of the part. The CAD program uses Boolean logic to map and wrap the logo exactly where you want it to go.

Since you are actually inscribing the logo into the part, you must determine the depth to which you want it recessed from the surface.

All of this is pretty arcane CAD processing and took me hours how to figure it out and get it done.

The cool thing is that my actual signature appears on every mouthpiece and barrel I make. I know I could have made a far slicker logo, using expensive graphics software, but this is exactly what I wanted.

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetxpress.com
847-266-8644

Post Edited (2021-01-29 15:58)

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