, If I ask you to carve a pine tree and you carved a elm tree,,, hummmmm ,it's not the same both are trees but not the same.
All I ask is for others to at least give it a try before they hang on to someone feeding the answers all the time I am sure there must be others who will produce the same project and not necessarilly the same way as I have produced it.Joe Lyddon said:Hi Tom,
Yes, I thought it was a "Setup" too... I just KNEW that you were going to show us how you did it...
Joe sorry but this was no set up I looked at the problem then I set out on the computer to draw it out. I was not sure if it could be done at the time that was the reason for the posting to see if anyone had something like it without the need to leave the workshop to purchase expensive Jigs etc.
But, no, you just show us the finished project...
To understand how the template was made you need to know a few tricks using the template guides. (That is to say if you are going to use guides)
I'll bet it wasn't done with a 40mm guide!
Wrong again I used two guides the 40mm and the 30mm with a beading cutter with the 30mm and a 10mm straight cutter with the 40mm Guide
Making the original for routing... how did you make it?
As I said there is a need to know something about the use of the guides before you would attempt the project. All I was interested in finding out was has someone else produced another method. I suppoe I should leave it up fro a week at least to see if we can have a few members commenting on the method they would use before I submit what I think is the answer.
I wasn't sure how all of those lines were supposed to be handled...
Not sure of you statement
OK, Tom, you have more pictures for us... yes?
I will certainly submit my answer as I said in a weeks time when others have had the chance to comment. I even went out today to purchase a piece of solid timber as one of my students commented over the phone to me "Why did I not use a piece of solid timber?" again I had to make sure it did work first and I had to post a sample in veneered chipboard quickly so that others would see it is possible and maybe they would like to give it a try the same way as I did. My past student was no other than Harrysin he never misses the opportunity to let me know what he is thinking and I must admit I appreciate his comments. I suppose I should not have published the results so quickly. As you may well be aware I am a retired schoolteacher and I always gave my students the opportunity to try and work it out the various problems for themselves before I gave them the answer. So set to it and see if you can come up with an alternative answer to what I did. There are more ways of skinning a cat so they say.
Thank you for coming through!
Hi Bobbobj3 said:See the item below
Bj
Are you going to apply this to a cabinet or something? template tom said:
Bob.bobj3 said:Hi Tom
see add on notes and snapshots to the 1st. post
Bj
Coreychallagan said:Tom, what I wasn't quite sure of was if what you were after was a way to do a line carving like your drawing or a separate carving to be applied to something as in your photos above. It's a neat piece, reminds me of the stuff you saw in the 50's and 60's... the atomic generation
Corey
With the line drawing or carving my first thought was a cabinet door carving as well. Funny thought, I could duplicate that drawing you say almost to a T I think with the milescraft jig as it just happens to have the patter for 3 different sized leaf like items like that . Really......whether it is 40mm or otherwise Tom, it is nice to get people to use templates and guides and that is something I am just starting to explore! Appreciate the posts and thoughts Tom.
