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hand carving: lady justice
This is the art work. Image needs to be 5 1/2"x5 1/2"x1/2"thick overall.
This is Lady Justice hand carved in basswood.
Here is the CNC version done by a good friend who has a lot of experience. He said this shows the limitations of this technology. If it was 4x larger, it would be fine.
I better get back to the bench now! 🙂
Joe,
Makin Chips and Havin Fun!
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OOOOOOOPS
Obviously I haven’t quite figured this out yet…..just sorta flip everything around….I know you can do it! 🙂
Joe,
Makin Chips and Havin Fun!
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that really is amazing work joe… you must have one hell of a steady hand mate. one notch too far and you could easily snip of a nose or ear at those sizes :lol1:. joking aside… you beat the cnc router without a doubt mate!
as for loading the images, basically… if you have several, load them in reverse order to how you want them to appear. 😉
thanks for taking the time to show your work. 😀
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You continue to amaze me Joe. Keep ’em coming.
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another great one Joe
well done
"The hand is mightier than the……..router!"
Warren
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Lovely work, always impressed by your carving Joe.
Was the CNC one done with a V bit or a ball nosed cutter?
I’ve seen some carving work done on a CNC lately using a V bit and and Vcarve software, they have added a feature to make the finished part look like it’s been hand carved and it looks very good.
Still knowing how long CNC’s can take it may still be quicker to carve by hand.
My CNC mill took 16 hours to make a small part for my bike a few weeks ago!Steve
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Its unfortunately the down side of using machines, esp CNC of any type, they are just too clinical for some effects, however this is a big plus for the master craftsmen like Joe who cn do what a machine cant…..bring life to a carving….
Fantastic work
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well i still got to experiment with vcarve, i spoke to the authour and it is amazing bit of kit. Here is the website http://www.vectric.com/
Joe, your skills will always out smart a router but for a non-chipper then the router will feel easier. From my readings, the light areas calculate how far to go down, the lighter the area the further. Looks like he was using a thick cutter but that is just time saving, using small ones just takes ages, therefore chipping away by hand may then become the best way of doing the job knowing what the result will look like.
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Thanks everyone! 🙂
I guess some details are needed here. He used a 1/16th" ball cutter.
I actually talked to 2 pros about this….. Although I thought this artwork was superior they both said that it would take nearly 50 hrs of THEIR time just to program it.
I’ll probably spend 12 hrs max. Oh, and then there is the undercutting 🙂 .I’ll post another pic when it’s done.
Thanks Again!
Joe,
Makin Chips and Havin Fun!
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Dave you can usually alter the direction the Z axis is sent by the dark to light areas.
It’s usually a setting like black = -Z or something like.
I use Meshcam for my 3D machining, I have a medium size industrial CNC mill that I play with making parts for friends and myself but Meshcam can also take images and create the Gcode for machining it, there is also a meshcam Art version coming out that has a lot more control over the depth and shape for individual colours, I’ve seen some molds made for jewelry using this and the results are very good but I suspect a fair amount of work went into getting it right and a new user wouldn’t be able to reproduce the same quality.
Steve
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