proud of the marines

[cabnet636]

carving a large marine corps piece for a NC marine base, had not done a large piece in a while and i almost forgot how much fun it can be!!

[CNC Lurker]

Very nice, how big is that piece?

[cabnet636]

60" x 60", the final piece with a walnut rope boarder will be 72" in diameter

thanks for looking

[CNC Lurker]

Wow, that's huge! Is the center going to have any text?

[cabnet636]

it is a slice and will have the rest of the globe on the flat section you see

[Boltz]

Nice work!

Good job prepping the blank to minimize waste.

Were you running vacuum, or was it just held in place by gravity and the blocks?

-Jim Hart

[cabnet636]

the slab is 3" walnut, under it is a 1/2" 60x60 ply that i profiled the registration out in first, registered the template on the cnc then used it for the glue up perimeter

worked well!!

[Boltz]

Interesting... so the walnut is glued to the ply, and the ply is vacuumed to the table?

-Jim Hart

[cabnet636]

Interesting... so the walnut is glued to the ply, and the ply is vacuumed to the table?

-Jim Hart

no glue all blocks and screws, we did the glue up off the board the returned to the cnc to plane before begginning the carve

[Mick Martin]

That's one large piece of 3D work Jim, can you post a picture of the finished job.

Mick

[Ron Dunn]

I'm going to be a little bit critical here.

The quality of the carving looks good, but I think I'm seeing a fairly common problem in the piece - poor grain matching.

There appears to be a sudden change of colour half way across the carving. That can usually be avoided by rearranging the stock, although you might have to buy some extra material to give a better choice.

To me, that attention to detail is the difference between good work and GREAT work.

[cabnet636]

I'm going to be a little bit critical here.

The quality of the carving looks good, but I think I'm seeing a fairly common problem in the piece - poor grain matching.

There appears to be a sudden change of colour half way across the carving. That can usually be avoided by rearranging the stock, although you might have to buy some extra material to give a better choice.

To me, that attention to detail is the difference between good work and GREAT work.

thanks ron, the largest issue wa finding enough 3" solid stock to do a 4.5" thick slice model at 7% moisture content within the deadline for the marines. the second slice which i am working on now covers the most obvious streak, as i out sourced this i was kinda stuck with what i got. the color blend will even the color basically no one had any on hand and believe me we tried !