All very nice!!

 

Thanks. I will be doing a lot of 3d carves because I have plenty of signs and plaques.

I have an Indian carve running while I finish the train.

I try to carve 1 a day to keep things moving.

I have plenty of wood that needs used up.

 

Really nice outcomes . I know you’ve had a long journey to get to this point , and I’m happy to see you’ve made it .
To think I have to do the same someday

 

Thanks for the inspiration, I am still learning. This new CNC is fantastic I can do so much more with it and best part is, it's made in the good ole USA.

 

Nice work. How are you handling the sawdust? Do you wear/need hearing protection?

 

Karen, It looks like you have the new machine figured out.

I like the glaze job you did on the Napkin Holder and Bear and really like the paint job on the Welcome Sign. Adding that little bit of color helps make is a great sign instead of just a sign.

The heavy scroll work on the Railroad sign kind of over powers the train engine and coal tender, I think I would try to get less detail in the frame elements and more detail into to the train if you try carving it again. Of course that is just my opinion and when it is finished I might think different.

 

Karen, It looks like you have the new machine figured out.

I like the glaze job you did on the Napkin Holder and Bear and really like the paint job on the Welcome Sign. Adding that little bit of color helps make is a great sign instead of just a sign.

The heavy scroll work on the Railroad sign kind of over powers the train engine and coal tender, I think I would try to get less detail in the frame elements and more detail into to the train if you try carving it again. Of course that is just my opinion and when it is finished I might think different.

I like the scroll work. This file was in a large bundle that I purchased I did not create it. But I guess I could learn some modeling software for alterations and improvements on downloaded models. This is something I was thinking about learning.

 

Wow I love that train carving. My dad used to drive coal trains and I'm sure he would get a kick out of it.

 

Brilliant.

 

nice work!

 

They look great

 

Wow! Very nice...I would like to get into a CNC one day. Which bed size does your machine have?

 

The working area is 35" x 35". I can now run some nice sized jobs.

 

Fantastic stuff!! I recognized the napkin holder, because I'm planning to make one myself. The others are new to me and they look great. For the napkin holder, what kind of wood did you use? Thanks.

 

1" thick Oak, the downloaded file is for .75 thick. I cut out the hands, measure the bottom width and adjust the base pocket to match for a good fit. When you open the downloaded job from Vectric, you have to make changes to wood thickness and recalculate the tool paths.

 

All are nice, Karen, but I love the napkin holder and the subtle colours that you've used in some.

 

When I use good wood, I like to use it's natural grain. With a carve, I apply watered down Acrylic as a stain and even sand it a little to let more grain through. If it was a sign, I would use more opaque solid color.

 

@KarlieBoe

Welcome to the forum KarleyBoe.

 

Here is the train finished and hanging. It is a Christmas present for my brother. I dry brushed some Testers bronze on there but can't see it on the pic. It has a slight shine to some of it.

 

It all boils down to personal taste so don't take my criticism as a bad thing.
I do also understand that this being a purchased file you are limited in what you can do with it. You did do justice to the file.

I like the Train better after you added the finish.

 

Really cool carving , and the inspiration I needed this early morning. New to cnc wood carving , but not new to wood working. My new mega v is awaiting the funds to get the V-carve pro,,$700,. It is homing great, and jogging, but no saw dust yet. A couple days hopefully I will get it going to start out with just simple scripture carving. All the beautiful carvings that you have done here really inspires me to get started as quickly as possible.
Thank you,

 

Any suggestions on this new journey with the Mega V are always appreciated ,, It was rather cool to see it move for the first time, then I realized the trial software had to be purchased to get it to save as G-code. I built a great work station for it , but it is colder than crap in the garage now,, we are covered in snow and ice.

Thank you
Have a blessed day!
Ray

 

Any suggestions on this new journey with the Mega V are always appreciated ,, It was rather cool to see it move for the first time, then I realized the trial software had to be purchased to get it to save as G-code. I built a great work station for it , but it is colder than crap in the garage now,, we are covered in snow and ice.

Thank you
Have a blessed day!
Ray

Trial versions of the Vectric software is meant to learn on or test drive before purchase, you cannot save tool paths with it.
I live in Pennsylvania, our winters can be really cold and snowy all the way up into April.
My garage did not have any heat for years.
I took my computer and other electronics inside the house when it got cold in there.
Last August I insulated the garage and installed a propane heater.
It was really nice to go out into the middle of winter and be able to turn on my equipment.
Then on Feb. 1st of this year, my garage caught fire and I lost a lot of my equipment.
I was able to salvage the CNC frame, then ordered all the hardware and Z carriage.
I assembled the gantry, tested the motors, z and x are moving like butter.
Now I have to wait for the new garage to finish the assembly.

 

For my oldest grand daughter I turned a rocking chair out of oak from a old farm house almost 200 years old on my lathe in my garage 15 years ago, middle of winter. It was doweled together with olive wood dowels I turned s well, no screws. Every piece was within .010 of the others of the same piece. I liked to froze my fingers off too. We had an old red corvette I was restoring in the garage, it was the color of oak sawdust till spring time. The rocking chair looks exactly the same today as it did when I gave it to her as she graduates high school in a few months, with a full ride to college close to home.
I have the mega v in the 19" aluminum bed assembled jogging, homing, still a few issues i am figuring out before cutting anything yet. Router still not ever been plugged up, nor bit installed. My work is good now, I don't get much sleep, so I try not to mess with it much until I get sleep. 4 or 5 hours a day sleep most all the time.
When I saw that you had a fire I called millwright and told Wesley to tell Derrick to help you out, that you were the best advertisement on the internet they had out here !
Hope they did too!
Sawdust soon hopefully,
Thank you, have a blessed day,
Ray

 

Glad to hear you're up and running again. Few things worse then recovering from a fire. At lest the house was spared thanks to the quick fire response.

 

I am not up and running, the buffalo was sitting on my finishing table. I have a few more that need finished. I will not be back in business for a few more months.

 

Those a very nice looking. Have a Chinese 6040 that at present needs fixed, but I did just today order me the mega V and cant wait to get it. Love these here you made and especially the polish work you did.
Can you tell me how you glossed them up to shine like that? Really nice

 

For inside items I use a spray varnish or urethane for the final finish.