Looks good, and you spelled Olsen right 
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My gate. It has been a long time coming. I used my X-Carve 1000 x 1000 to carve all the curved parts, all the internal mortise and tenon joints and of course the v-carved image in the top panel.
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Very nice!
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My two concert ukes
On the left - Sitka top, sapele neck and body, pau ferro bridge/fretboard, walnut binding, resin inlay
On the right - Western red cedar top, honduran mahogany neck, ovangkol body, ebony bridge/fretboard, flame maple binding (never again), mother of pearl dots and corian headstock inlay. 3x piezo pickups!
On both, everything possible was rough cut on the x-carve, except for the neck profile and scarf joint.
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That is truly beautiful work
So far, the project I’m most proud of is a design I did for a customer. She wanted a Connect 4 game, customized for her daughters wedding. The result is in the photos.
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3D topo carve
Here’s my prototype pine carve of the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque. THe x-y is about 7 by 9 inches and total hight is 1 1/2 inches. I made a few mistakes but I know how to fix for the final carve in walnut. Super happy with the result.
Sandias Looking East.JPG Sandias Looking North.JPG Sandias Looking South.JPG
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I love those topographic maps. I recently did one of my area as well.
4 hours with a 1/8th ballnose
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You must live in Illinois…
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@ChrisLafleur that is absolutely a work of art!! I want to do a mountain here in Kentucky that my grandpa ran the state park for in the 70s. I just need to get my 3D software first. Do you just use an actual topo map and work from there to create it?
Thanks Brian! I used the website that xfredericox provided above. It’s very simple to use and gives you a stereolithograph file (stl). I imported that into meshCAM which generated the toolpath (gcode). Because there was so much waste wood to remove I did a rough cut first with a 1/2 inch bit and then a detail cut with a ballnose.
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This is a Cornhole game I made as a wedding gift for a friend. The letter is for his last name. I used walnut plywood and birch plywood for the inlays. Using the inlay generator worked great. The tolerances were perfect, no hand work was needed.
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That is very nice!
Looks great! I’ve never seen walnut plywood before around here.
Just finished up this guitar. Im just getting into using my x-carve and learning what it can do. I built the design in easel by borrowing the pocket sizes from the @SteveCarmichael guitar build. I wanted to change the shape of the guitar so I used the image trace feature with a guitar outline I found on google. I used a pre-made neck for my first attempt. Its basic but it works and im pretty happy with how it turned out!
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So cool. Wow!
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Oh man, that’s killer Zach! Well done! Glad you could use the neck pocket dimensions and it fit ok.
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Thanks Steve! It was a perfect fit, just a generic pre-made neck from Amazon. Thanks for sharing your easel project!
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It is not flat enough. I see grooves in the grain pattern.
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