Figured I would make a thread to share some of my latest carves too!
I enjoy getting to see others carves because at the very least it may give others an idea for a project, gift, etc we had not thought of yet.
11" x 24" - for our friends son’s wedding
23" Dia - for my daughters school project (I also put straps on the back so she use it as a shield)
22" Square - for my Dad’s birthday, he’s a Bigfoot nut
14.5" tall - for my wife
12.5" tall - Celtic Cross(from an STL design I did a year ago, originally for my 3D printer)
16" x 24" - For our neighbors who are part owners in that Corn Maze(actual paid sign)
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WOW beautiful work!
Congragulations Matt and Pricilla.
THIS IS SPARTA!!!
That was not my best photo
Simply Amazing
Great Detail work
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Thanks very much!
I went back and added some comments to the pics. Pics don’t always convey a good idea of project size, so I found it’s helpful to include dimensions. :-)
Great…now I get to go to the corn maze (or drive by it) and see if the sign is there.
Good job on these! The cross looks amazing.
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Thanks!
They were using the sign on the wagon setup in the shed where people take family pictures. I think this past weekend may have been the last for this season though? 
Looks awesome!! One question. Anywhere cheap you of where I could buy the 23" diameters?
Actually, that was just glued edge pine from a 48" x 24" board from Lowes - then did a profile cut to get the circle.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Common-3-4-in-x-24-in-x-4-ft-Actual-0-62-in-x-23-25-in-x-4-ft-Spruce-Pine-Fir-Board/4742290
Here are a couple more I’ve done:
11" diameter - for my daughter
15" diameter - just for the heck of it(also have one that is God,Bacon,Guns)
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Any chance you sharing this? It’s pretty sweet!
Did you design the Celtic cross? I have made lots of them and your is very nice and different from all my others.
I guess you are talking about the “Beer, Bacon, Guns” ?
I’ll have to think about that one for a bit. Although it is loosely based on a t-shirt image you can find in many places online, it was not as simple as doing a vector trace of an image in V-Carve. I did try that at first, a few times, but could just not get a good trace due to image resolution, color, etc… It always ended up not having enough details. So I had to build the entire thing from scratch, find separate good resolution images for each part of the design, then spend many hours getting everything just right in V-Carve. Probably have at least 8 solid hours of hands on time doing the design, over a few days.
Yes, I designed that cross loosely based on a similar image I found, I changed some of the sizing and number of elements in the design though.
I had originally designed it and made it as a two color print on my 3D printer about a year ago, before I had the X-Carve.
Then I decided I would give it a go using that same STL on the X-Carve with some walnut I had.
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Oh yeah that’s no problem. If you created it from scratch. I tell people don’t share. Make others strive to be great and create. No biggie though. Yeah I know what you mean. I’m creating something from scratch and don’t know if I’m gonna share it yet too, from time invested.
Keep up good work!
Thanks for understanding! I was hoping everyone would not think - “what a butt-head for not sharing”.
I still may share it in the near future, but it is hard to just give away something you spent a lot of time creating.
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I have so got to get my X-carve working. It’s all built I just haven’t made my first carve . . . but this Madonna is motivation, my mother would love it. So this actually was done with Easel?
Actually, I bought the main Mary design from the Design and Make website. Then I did extra design to it to add the 12 stars and have them be attached to the main part. All of that design was done in VCarve Desktop software. I generated the gcode in VCarve and then ran the files using Easel.
Teacher gifts finished and ready to be handed out tomorrow! 1/8” acrylic, .2” birch plywood made into boxes using the Easel box app, 3528 LED strip lights, miniature slide switch on back, run by 9v battery.
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I did the same thing this past summer and had too much time into mine to give it away as well. Try V carving it gives it some nice depth.
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Yep, the one I did was done with a V-Carving toolpath using a 60deg V-Bit and a flat depth of .125" using a .125" down cut bit
Yep! My version, further up thread, is holding a beer and an AR with the bacon above the eagle.
