Just experimenting... we never did come to any definite conclusions the last time I brought up changing the logo, other than many wanted it to stay the same, and there was the animated milling of the logo idea, but end results were not quite professional enough for the final copy.
You can hoot and hollar till the sun buns out, but the Cataract is going to go at some point, so there is no point in harping further about keeping it, but I am still open to other ideas that connote a more "modern" and "manufacturing" concept.
I'd be open to the idea of a nice photo of old manual lathe or horizontal boring mill on the other side of the Practical Machinist font, but not real old like the Cataract, but a 1960's Monarch, Giddings and Lewis or Schaublin or something. But somewhere in the main logo there has to be a CNC machine of some sort, or something that clearly indicates CNC.
I don't know if it's doable but how about a slide show of top-end machine tools from different eras. It would be a little bit of a history lesson and represent something for all the different areas of interests of the members.
I don't know if it's doable but how about a slide show of top-end machine tools from different eras. It would be a little bit of a history lesson and represent something for all the different areas of interests of the members.
That sounds pretty cool...if done right. Trouble is I'm not the person to "do it right"...
I don't know if it's doable but how about a slide show of top-end machine tools from different eras. It would be a little bit of a history lesson and represent something for all the different areas of interests of the members.
Then the 56k guys are going to be here till the middle of next week waiting for the page to load .
Stephen Thomas is on 34k or something or other .,god help him !
the old hardinge is best kept ...its a classic .timeless .....and immediately recognisable as a lathe ...
outsiders / people will look at a cnc ...........and just think ........a box of some sort? .is it a machine ?.
or you're encouraging an inrush of "billet" guys joining .
outsiders / people will look at a cnc ...........and just think ........a box of some sort? .is it a machine ?
That's precisely why I chose a "non box" looking CNC machine in the Hermle photo. But true the photo is reduced so much that it's hard to see the mill head and tilt table in action, so I would consider a "close up" of just that area as another idea. But somehow the CNC control needs to be in the picture too....that's the tricky part.
Re Jon's slide show idea I was thinking more in terms of the home page that only newbies see....most of us go directly to the main forum page and never look at www.practicalmachinist.com page anyway.
That's precisely why I chose a "non box" looking CNC machine in the Hermle photo. But true the photo is reduced so much that it's hard to see the mill head and tilt table in action, so I would consider a "close up" of just that area.
I'm for that ...
a close up of an endmill shooting chips out or some thing chucked up being cut would be preferable ...
still like the good olde hardinge though ...theres no smiley for "I'm sad"
then it wouldn't be a smiley come to think of it ..lol
I have no problem ignoring a big sheet metal box that is hard to recognize as a machine tool in a tiny picture. I suppose I am in the minority that never owned or ran a CNC machine tool. I have seen them run, starting long ago with a Moog Hydrapoint based on a Bridgeport.
Which makes me wonder if a CNC Bridgeport picture might be more easily recognized as a machine tool. I suppose they all have sheet metal guards now.
In which case, I second the idea of a closeup of a chip being made.
That's precisely why I chose a "non box" looking CNC machine in the Hermle photo. But true the photo is reduced so much that it's hard to see the mill head and tilt table in action, so I would consider a "close up" of just that area as another idea. But somehow the CNC control needs to be in the picture too....that's the tricky part.
Re Jon's slide show idea I was thinking more in terms of the home page that only newbies see....most of us go directly to the main forum page and never look at www.practicalmachinist.com page anyway.
Does it have to be a "real machine" and does it have to be a real "CNC control"? Difficult to do in a reducible form.
How about a well done cartoonish robot type operating a cartoonish type machine? More work by a graphic artist, but the CNC message could be conveyed in a very reducible form.
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