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For some time (years actually) I’ve wanted to engrave the light switch covers in our house so my wife could figure out which of the 11 switches near the front door was the porch (2nd from the top on the right side - duh). I initially looked at a laser etcher but discovered it wouldn’t work on the plastic they are made of - in search of a solution I discovered x-carve. After multiple wood carved I finally got around to trying a cover.
I used a shallow electrical box as my mounting jig hot gluing it to my scrap board - used the 0.001 engraving bit with the cast acrylic preset and it worked great. Did a fill with some gray oil based enamel (out of black) and it looks great. X-carve for the win!
I had watched that previously and used it on a wood piece I did - just didn’t think about using it after the fact on the cover. Thanks for the heads up.
