there's two ways to fix that job. 1) fill it with Akemi & granite dust. with the Akemi tint kit you can get the color to match perfect but if the stone is wet you'll see the repair. 2) panel it out, have the quarry make an insert, silicone the insert in and re-letter it. no one will ever know that there was a mistake made.
@@-gravestonepros yup another option if the customer will except it. but also more costly because you'd have to panel out the mistake panel and the other panel to match.
That there is a little guy for us up here in New England, but great watching you , and showing we make errors in our industry.. and we’re over 140 years in and still making errors lol., are you laying out by hand in a press, or on computer? I’m assuming monu-cad as they are somewhat close to you? But if your running a press, I’m noticing your pulling your v-lines when your pulling designs especially panels, no need and they go back in much better if you leave the v-lines together, a slightly used x-acto will get in the cut and glide through without pulling v-lines first
Ya the Eddy Stone was a good sized one for us we do a lot of smaller 6inch stock stones around here. We use Gerber Omega for designing stones. I have always preferred pulling the v-lines but I have seen lots of guys who don't. Thanks for watching. Its nice to know ever after 140 years errors still happen.
I'm wondering why you don't opt for a pin-fed plotter like a Gerber, or a flatbed. It wouldn't take very many do-overs to pay for one. More than likely, your pinch rollers are the culprit...they just don't bite into the polyester backing very well.
Yes, the Allen Datagraph plotters have IBM pattern pins AND also have multiple wheels that pinch the stencil down to the grit wheel (on Gerber plotters, they call it the “drum”). I’ve been having the misaligned letter problem for months as well as thick/thin lines. I tried troubleshooting with Allen, swapped out all of the machine’s belts, but nothing changed. We were so busy at the time, I wound up buying a new Allen machine. On the new machine I still get misaligned letters sometimes. I’ve started to wonder if it might not be the plotter. It could be but the software (we use Omega Composer), the printer/plotter driver, or that heavy rolls of stencil are not allowing the stencil to feed at the correct rate. I’m thinking of shipping my old Allen back to the factory so they can figure it out. I’m worried that would be a long and expensive process.
@@aleceyeful We never got the cutting programe that Omega offers I somtimes wonder if that would work better do you have any experance with that? I think that's the next thing I will try.
@@-gravestonepros I bought my Allen machine from Hyatt’s. They sent me a software patch that allows Composer to send jobs to the plotter using the Print function. I just hit Print in Composer, when the Print dialogue pops up, I choose my Allen plotter as the “printer” I want to send the job to and the plotter does it’s thing. Composer does have a plotting program, which is part of the software package, but to my knowledge it is only used with Gerber brand plotters. I actually have an old Gerber machine. They are built like tanks, but do not have the same fine knife pressure adjustment that the Allens have and this is the main reason why I changed brands. We were using single liner stencil back then and the Gerber machine would cut all the way through the liner quite often which we both know is a pretty big problem. Gerber machines have a manual analog knob you turn to adjust knife pressure and it is hard to be very exact. The Allen machines have 1-100 digitally controlled knife pressure which is superior.
I have had the same issue with the misaligned letters. I use Omega Composer with an Allen 536, which I think is the same setup you guys use. The drawing of the baseline is a great way to check alignment. I think my plotter is the problem, have tried some troubleshooting with Allen Datagraph to no avail. I also have problems with the plotter cutting thick lines on one side of a design and thin lines on the other side. I’m wondering if you have had this problem too.
Everyone has thick thin, I run both MC-pro with MC cutter, and omega with Gerber gs-15, hs15, and hs-750 all pluses, and an older Allen POS… I can’t stand the way Allen does business. And their lack of willingness to help..
I definitely appreciate seeing the mistake and hearing what you think is the fix. I have started doing the same underlining of the stencils as I prepare to cut do final dates in the field. I have been experimenting with different material that might be able to be rubbed on the stencil to make the cut lines easier to see. String line chalk or dirt rubbed on the stencil, marker, etc. I have not found something yet that works real well, but I think it would really help both to inspect the quality of the stencil cut as well as weeding an intricate design. (Lighting conditions outdoors sometimes makes stencil cut lines extremely hard to see.) Any thoughts on what might be a good thing to try?
For on-site engraving, I like to weed the stencil back at the shop. This saves a little time at the cemetery and your weeding can be done in a more comfortable position/location.
@@-gravestonepros Also, we receive stencils with minor font dimension differences and have to select the closest match in the field. Weeding in the field is my only option, but controlled lighting in a shop would really help with detailed designs.
