Post by johnb on Jul 18, 2019 7:24:21 GMT -5
This is my first attempt at carving (only my 2nd project overall...the first being a two word V-Carved sign with a border cut on a 1 x 4)
This is a whimsical gift for a pair of newlyweds...the couple's names are Meredith & Colton...hence the "Mer-E-Colt Vineyards" name. That just "came to me" in a moment of (perhaps perverse) inspiration.
They plan on having children at some point...and I wanted to encourage that with the "Be Fruitful & Multiply". I cannot help being a terrible punster (I inherited that from my mother).
This plaque is an 11 x 14 piece of very old clear yellow pine salvaged from a teardown.
The clip art is straight out of Aspire, the font for the lettering is Royal Signage from Vintage Fonts (recently mentioned in another thread)
Lettering was V-Carved with a 90 degree V-bit running at 100 ips and 12,000 rpm
Relief was carved with a clearing path with a 1/4" flat end mill followed by a finish pass with a 1/16" tapered ball nose. Max depth is about .475" and was also cut at 100 ips and 12,000 rpm.
Finish pass on the carving took 2 hrs & 21 minutes (about 1/2 of what Aspire "thought" it would). The speeds & feeds seemed to work well on this wood as I had nice curly chips with minimal fine dust and no burning (old pine gets pretty hard).
I spent less than 5 minutes with a small brass wire brush cleaning up fuzzies.
This photo was taken after a single coat of Trewax "Mahogany" floor wax applied with a toothbrush. I may add another.
What I'm shooting for is something that "looks old" and somewhat rustic...on the order of an "antique" wine crate (although it would have to be a pretty fine wine to rate a crate with a relief carved into it)
The grooves "all the way to the edges" are intentional. The carving really is square on the wood, it's just the parallax from the cell phone camera that makes it look distorted.
Comments & criticism are gladly accepted. I'm not posting the file. It only took about an hour to create in Aspire (including learning how to import the Clip Art).
This is a whimsical gift for a pair of newlyweds...the couple's names are Meredith & Colton...hence the "Mer-E-Colt Vineyards" name. That just "came to me" in a moment of (perhaps perverse) inspiration.
They plan on having children at some point...and I wanted to encourage that with the "Be Fruitful & Multiply". I cannot help being a terrible punster (I inherited that from my mother).
This plaque is an 11 x 14 piece of very old clear yellow pine salvaged from a teardown.
The clip art is straight out of Aspire, the font for the lettering is Royal Signage from Vintage Fonts (recently mentioned in another thread)
Lettering was V-Carved with a 90 degree V-bit running at 100 ips and 12,000 rpm
Relief was carved with a clearing path with a 1/4" flat end mill followed by a finish pass with a 1/16" tapered ball nose. Max depth is about .475" and was also cut at 100 ips and 12,000 rpm.
Finish pass on the carving took 2 hrs & 21 minutes (about 1/2 of what Aspire "thought" it would). The speeds & feeds seemed to work well on this wood as I had nice curly chips with minimal fine dust and no burning (old pine gets pretty hard).
I spent less than 5 minutes with a small brass wire brush cleaning up fuzzies.
This photo was taken after a single coat of Trewax "Mahogany" floor wax applied with a toothbrush. I may add another.
What I'm shooting for is something that "looks old" and somewhat rustic...on the order of an "antique" wine crate (although it would have to be a pretty fine wine to rate a crate with a relief carved into it)
The grooves "all the way to the edges" are intentional. The carving really is square on the wood, it's just the parallax from the cell phone camera that makes it look distorted.
Comments & criticism are gladly accepted. I'm not posting the file. It only took about an hour to create in Aspire (including learning how to import the Clip Art).