Would like to see that carved.

 

James, if I have time I'll throw it into my machine tomorrow. Converted and ready to be carved.

This is my CAM software. 4" x 4" x .25" should take about 24 minutes to carve.

 

Found a really pretty piece of Eastern Cedar in my lumber pile. My first thought was, "why haven't I used this before?" After throwing it onto my cnc I saw the reason. It was really twisted. Pulled out my jig for twisted boards and started the carve.

The carving is 5"x5"x.25" and took about 32 minutes. The board is 7.5"x12"x.75". Zero sanding and one coat of tung oil.

 

Looks really nice, Oscar!

 

David, thank you.

If I was going to carve it for a real project, the pattern still needs some work. The mane and the leaf on the ground is too low. I would bring them forward.

So for folks that want to carve this a little for practice fun.

 

What a great image. I wonder how many equestrian clubs would love to have that engraved with the winner of a competition. And how many horse owners would love one of those with their horse's name to attach to a stall. I'd check that out because I can see a great market out there. A little announcement on appropriate social media groups, maybe an order sheet with pictures to make available at events and meetings of such groups and you've paid for your machine all over again. Upsize, downsize, quarter horse, Arabians, etc. It's a natural win! Different wood, Painted, oil or other finish, Think of the possibilities!

 

That looks great.

 

This kind of highlights how AI is transformative and has disrupted the art commercial sector.

I am guesstimating it would have taken me 3 to 4 hours to model this from scratch.

Versus

It took about 5 minutes to render the image on Flux.1 AI image generator (RTX 3080 12 GB), 1 minute to generate the height map, and 20-30 minutes for post processing the height map in Blender.

So 3-6 hours vs. about 45 minutes.

 

Very nice.