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Have been playing with creating decorative paddles to hang on the wall. Lots of different wildlife designs floating around in my head. Don't have Scott's painting abilities, so just have to stick to stain..
Decorative paddles
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That is true. Living in northern Minnesota, I tend to have woods and water on the brain..
Thanks.
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Those are GREAT! I love it, may I use that idea down here in FL?
Just so I'd know how to price them, stained vs painted. Scott, what's your painting fee on something like that. LOL
Just so I'd know how to price them, stained vs painted. Scott, what's your painting fee on something like that. LOL
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I have been thinking about pulling kitchen cabinet doors and doing something. I haven't passed it by the wife yet though.
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story please.
Did you buy paddles, than carve them, or do a 2 sided carve to make the entire thing? people want to know..
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HaHa. Not much of a story. I wanted to try my hand at modeling something in Aspire (2 rail sweep and vectors), so I chose a paddle (as I had been given a lasered one as a gift). These were made single sided from a 1x6x36" piece of whatever I had laying around. Used a 1/2" end and ball nose for the paddle itself, 1/16 TBN for lake scene.
Once I had the paddle model created, it was just a matter of adding text, clipart or models from Design and Make. BTW, there is a paddle in their model clipart..
Add acrylic paint or stain and lacquer. See, not much of a story.
Great job, those look really sharp !
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I had the same idea and my wife said "your not touching my cabinets!".
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Make mini ones for cabinet door handles.
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Make mini ones for cabinet door handles.
And then carve the doors.
And then carve the doors.
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Thanks. Depends on the paddle. The paddle itself took less than 45 minutes using a .5 end mill for rough and .5 ball nose for finish. The text did not take long at all. The cabin scene including the dish, took a couple hours with 1/16" tapered ball nose with a 6% stepover for no sanding. Probably should have used rest machining to speed things up.
Finishing is my bottle neck right now as I only have a small heated area in my shop which doesn't allow for spraying finishes and with high temps below zero lately, it is a REAL challenge.
All in all, a pretty quick and easy project. I can see a few of these in my future. All ready have several more designs done and more ideas in my head.
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John,
Do you remember what size ballnose you used on these door panels. They really look nice!
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1/4 end mill for the rough cut
1/8 ball nose for the finish cut
Could have probably used a 3/16 and got the same results. These are maple, which carves really really nice.
1/8 ball nose for the finish cut
Could have probably used a 3/16 and got the same results. These are maple, which carves really really nice.
I love your text fish, that might make an interesting carve for a sign.
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