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  • Vacuum Tube LEDs: 21HB5A on a Guilloche Platter

    With the Joggy Thing running in LinuxCNC 2.7, touching XY off on the fixture was trivially easy:

    LinuxCNC - Sherline Mill - Logitech Gamepad
    LinuxCNC – Sherline Mill – Logitech Gamepad

    The pips are 100 mm apart at (-50,-50) and (+50,50). Astonishingly, the laser aligner batteries are in fine shape.

    I should have protected the platter before drilling all those holes:

    Guilloche platter - drilling
    Guilloche platter – drilling

    All’s well that ends well:

    21HB5A - Guilloche platter
    21HB5A – Guilloche platter

    It looks even better in the dark, although you’d never know it from this picture:

    21HB5A - Guilloche platter - dark
    21HB5A – Guilloche platter – dark

    I wish I could engrave those patterns on already-drilled platters, but dragging a diamond point into a hole can’t possibly end well. I could deploy the Tiny Sandblaster with a vinyl mask, if I had enough artistic eptitude to lay out a good-looking mask.