Thought it would be fun to see what people have made on the CNC Model 2006.

So we can have one place to look at the fine work pieces.

Here is a kick off of a couple i have done. (names have been removed in pieces to protect the innocent)... lol

Joe

Joe, here is my latest project I just finished. I made this cribbage board for my dad he seems to have a hard time seeing the peg holes LOL. And he can keep everything in one spot.:)

Rick

That looks nice, the top just screws onto the bottom to make a nice enclosure.

[QUOTE=joe2000che;312947]That looks nice, the top just screws onto the bottom to make a nice enclosure.[/QUOTE


Joe, yes that is right that way when you travel everything stays together.


Rick

Joe, here is my latest project I just finished. I made this cribbage board for my dad he seems to have a hard time seeing the peg holes LOL. And he can keep everything in one spot.:)

Rick

Very nice Rick!
When you get a chance can you post details on what bits you used and how you finished the cribbage board. It's nice to see these work pieces and would be great to get a little detail on each one. Joe's work is very nice also and I've seen in his log details on how he did some of the work. It's great to learn something new or just pick up a tip or two! :)

Thanks,
Bob

Very nice Rick!
When you get a chance can you post details on what bits you used and how you finished the cribbage board. It's nice to see these work pieces and would be great to get a little detail on each one. Joe's work is very nice also and I've seen in his log details on how he did some of the work. It's great to learn something new or just pick up a tip or two! :)

Thanks,
Bob

Thanks Bob I will post some details when I get a chance it will not be until this weekend though.

Rick

Hey Bob details are here.

Rick


http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showpost.php?p=315032&postcount=82

Been busy, but finally getting back to cnc. Joe's design is still running strong. Even despite problems I've had the machine is great and the work created with it is a result of hours of tinkering, making enough mistakes, teaching myself to program cad/cam all that, and joe's (and cnczone's) support for his design. Thanks for putting up with all my nagging in the past few months. :)

This is just a sample, wish I shot pics of everything. Mostly for friends.

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/bone.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/church1.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/church2.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/church3.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/church4.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/fabricio.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/fabricio2.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/hdpeparts1.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/largesigncedar1.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/largesigncedar2.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/mike.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/pastor.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/vicsign.jpg

The saw blade sign is cool. All the finish work looks good, too.

Thanks for the comments ger, I just started using the avery paint mask that Jay reccomended on the vectric forum. The stuff is great, and creates a flawless way to paint the signs especially with detailed lettering. The saw blade one was fun, one of my first cutouts on my router believe it or not. I traced a photo of a dewalt chop saw blade in autocad and I actually broke a 1/4" spiral cutting it out. You reccomended using 3/8" tooling so I could hunk that out as I had vibration problems and the 3/8" cutter cut that out flawlessly. I had little chatter marks on the teeth of the cutout and I didnt have to sand at all, I was suprised. First one was done for a co-worker, second was coincidentally another person, a memorial plaque for a fellow woodworker that past last year. The bottom is a Portuguese phrase, "good memories last forever."

I hope more people post work; I think it's neat to see what people can come up with for joe's diy machine!

Brian,

Great job! Those are some nice looking pieces!

Thanks for sharing!

Bob

Brian,

Very Nice .GLad you shared them with us.

Kent

Excellent work Brian. I'm getting very itchy, but very busy with my business and then my renovations so the Joes CNC is going to have to wait a little. Still squeezing in as much as I can when I can.

Claudio

Hi Brian,

Excellent projects and the finishing looks very professional - great work!

As you say, using a paint mask really does take the hard work out of finishing carved pieces. But it still requires an 'artistic-eye' to make things look interesting and appealing!

Tony

Thanks for the comments ger, I just started using the avery paint mask that Jay reccomended on the vectric forum. The stuff is great, and creates a flawless way to paint the signs especially with detailed lettering. The saw blade one was fun, one of my first cutouts on my router believe it or not. I traced a photo of a dewalt chop saw blade in autocad and I actually broke a 1/4" spiral cutting it out. You reccomended using 3/8" tooling so I could hunk that out as I had vibration problems and the 3/8" cutter cut that out flawlessly. I had little chatter marks on the teeth of the cutout and I didnt have to sand at all, I was suprised. First one was done for a co-worker, second was coincidentally another person, a memorial plaque for a fellow woodworker that past last year. The bottom is a Portuguese phrase, "good memories last forever."

I hope more people post work; I think it's neat to see what people can come up with for joe's diy machine!


This paint mask May I ask what site did you order from

Patrick

Tony, that's one of the hardest parts. Software, great tooling, industrial machines; they only go so far. You can do almost anything with a 3 axis router, but it is up to the programmer to get it cut efficiently, safely and when not for parts but for aesthetics such as signs much of it is the creativity of the programmer :). Your program seems to make that quite simplified however..

This paint mask May I ask what site did you order from

Patrick

White Paint Mask 1510 Unpunched

http://www.beacongraphics.com/ (jay recommended it) I think it was around $28 for a roll shipped. I can get a lot of signs out of that one roll..

White Paint Mask 1510 Unpunched

http://www.beacongraphics.com/

Look for A1828-S....easier to find. You won't see 1510 until it's in your cart.

Thanks ger, yeah I copied that from my paypal account sorry.

This seems to be the actual Paint Mask page URL on Beacon Graphics:

Paint Mask from Avery Graphics (http://www.beacongraphics.com/paintmask.html)


HTH,

Here some peices I had fun cutting ,not finished but Joe suggested I put them here .

I have been playing again. I downloaded some of the 3-d puzzle,Here is some results. Please tell me If you see I put them together wrong ...the pieces fit so ....

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showth...ght=3d+puzzles

These puzzles are fun . The flat spider is made for my friends daughter as you can see I made begineers mistake on the cut out off her name.. silly me

Some of the pieces tabs broke,yeah I made them to thin....
learning curve .... well hope you all are having as much fun as I am .. Kent

O'yeah the sheet spider is 22.5" X 48" incase your wondering

The rabbit and base is little over 6"

While checking out the work on vectric site I ran across a thread by CLyon
William Morris Illustration http://vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2059&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 I was really impressed with the piece of art he made from William Morris Illustration. So impressed I needed to have one for myself. So with the help of the internet and of course V-Carve. I was able to get this 11 x 17.5 .5V90 at 65 IPM 20 plunge right at about 3 hours ( V-Carve estimated almosts 5. So I planed on abit of work in the shop to keep me close by.Happy to say it ran great the whole time. I am not completely finished with the finish but had to post. I am pretty happy with this... One of the reasons I wanted build the router in the first place....

Very nice, great work!!! I gotta try that when my mill is done!

Cheers
dewalt58

That piece is absolutely stunning, I saw that over at the vectric forums as well. The longest vcarving tool path I ran was about an hour or so because the font I used was rather complex (bad if you want to call it that) as tony explained it to me. If I had used a better font it could have been a difference of saving half that time! Glad to see more people posting work photos, keep em' coming!

In regards to the picture "Lady in the woods", which V-carve version was used to make carving? Photo V-Carve? V-Carve Pro?

Cheers
dewalt58

Howdy Dewalt, I used V-Carve version 4 I believe.. Latest and greatest I suppose :) I will try posting the CRV file had to post as zip . please look it over well I made few changes to carve it i.e. flip X and Y demension due router setup and its hard to work side ways in vcarve :) opps it failed o'well its easy enough just load to vcarve and use the trace function piece of cake ..

One I cut tonight...

Nice one biotech

While checking out the work on vectric site I ran across a thread by CLyon
William Morris Illustration http://vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2059&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 I was really impressed with the piece of art he made from William Morris Illustration. So impressed I needed to have one for myself. So with the help of the internet and of course V-Carve. I was able to get this 11 x 17.5 .5V90 at 65 IPM 20 plunge right at about 3 hours ( V-Carve estimated almosts 5. So I planed on abit of work in the shop to keep me close by.Happy to say it ran great the whole time. I am not completely finished with the finish but had to post. I am pretty happy with this... One of the reasons I wanted build the router in the first place....


That did come out very nice, I think yours looks slightly better than the other one, but thats just my opinion, (wonder what machine he runs if it is a commercial one). But your machine did a great job.

Joe

Thanks Joe. I wouldn't go as far as say better . I think the darkness of the stain I used makes it pop out more. I couldn't have got it to look as does without Chris's procedure he was kind enough to share with who wants to read it. and nothing against CLyons camera skill ,But I think my picture is more infocus and not as extreme of an angle . I was real happy the router just went along it merry ol'way.
Kent

Thanks Joe. I wouldn't go as far as say better . I think the darkness of the stain I used makes it pop out more. I couldn't have got it to look as does without Chris's procedure he was kind enough to share with who wants to read it. and nothing against CLyons camera skill ,But I think my picture is more infocus and not as extreme of an angle . I was real happy the router just went along it merry ol'way.
Kent


Ok i can see what you are talking about, a good camera goes a long way. but still for your homebuilt machine and the V-Carve Pro software, it came out great and looking forward to seeing more of your work. pretty soon you will have a "Wood Art Gallary" and people will come miles to see your work.... :)

Joe

That is some great work!

Been busy, but finally getting back to cnc. Joe's design is still running strong. Even despite problems I've had the machine is great and the work created with it is a result of hours of tinkering, making enough mistakes, teaching myself to program cad/cam all that, and joe's (and cnczone's) support for his design. Thanks for putting up with all my nagging in the past few months. :)

This is just a sample, wish I shot pics of everything. Mostly for friends.

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/bone.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/church1.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/church2.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/church3.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/church4.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/fabricio.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/fabricio2.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/hdpeparts1.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/largesigncedar1.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/largesigncedar2.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/mike.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/pastor.jpg

http://www.vi01.com/cnc/work/vicsign.jpg

Thought I would share since there hasn't been too much going on in the thread as of late.

Wish my pics were better, but my digi seemed to grow legs and I can't find it :confused: (so the cell phone camera will have to suffice for the time being).

These are some test cuts for a final press of the final board - a good friend of mine and myself have a company that creates balance boards/long boards/wakeskates/wakesurf boards. If anyone is curious, the website is www.neustonboards.com (shameless plug, sorry, I HAD to :))

Here is an abstract Marley photo (colored with Permanent markers for the proto :)) and a honey comb design we're going to go with on a few new boards :rainfro:

Here's a MN state emblem board that I just did - and messed up in a few parts (I think I need to take a jumper off of my HobbyCNC board - the machine seems to miss steps in a long job, but is locking/binding up at random places (and it's always the Z-axis). So hopefully that remedies the situation :confused:

So the MN board had to be filled with Durham's putty in areas, but will be a great promo board once it is fully painted and sealed.

nice looking boards.