Joined
·
793 Posts
I have become involved in setting up a haunted house for a local church group. Since I have the 5x10 CNC router table (A Samson 510 plasma table with a DeWalt 611 router in place of the plasma torch) I have taken on the task of making the rocking tombstones, and a few other things. The mechanical end is fairly easy. I will use the driveway alerts from Harbor Freight Tools to trigger the motion. They are GOOD to have around for projects like this, because they can be used to trigger things in a couple of different ways. They will also come in handy during the zombie apocalypse!
The router bits arrived today from Amazon. Dang it! Too short! I am going to try anyway. Since I am only carving closed cell foam (the blue stuff from Lowe's) I THINK I can get away with grabbing less of the shank in the collet. The foam will not resist cutting, and I can slow down the router to keep things civil. What I really need is a 1/4" ball tip with a 3" shank. I can't find one.
This is the first tombstone I will carve. I was going to do the "Crying Angel" but Halloween is a strange event. It is completely against church teachings to celebrate 'The Day of the Dead' and yet ... it seems to be the biggest thing with church people. So the props can be scary, but they cannot make references to God, or Jesus, or angels
Demons and monsters are fair game.
I have 2" thick foam sheets. I will post some photos of the results...
Joe
The router bits arrived today from Amazon. Dang it! Too short! I am going to try anyway. Since I am only carving closed cell foam (the blue stuff from Lowe's) I THINK I can get away with grabbing less of the shank in the collet. The foam will not resist cutting, and I can slow down the router to keep things civil. What I really need is a 1/4" ball tip with a 3" shank. I can't find one.
This is the first tombstone I will carve. I was going to do the "Crying Angel" but Halloween is a strange event. It is completely against church teachings to celebrate 'The Day of the Dead' and yet ... it seems to be the biggest thing with church people. So the props can be scary, but they cannot make references to God, or Jesus, or angels
I have 2" thick foam sheets. I will post some photos of the results...
Joe