I live in Louisville, Ky, so lots of Bourbon stuff going on here.
These are some Bourbon Barrell heads that I do engravings on for various people.
Also a flight Tray for a Brewery. I think I made about 24 of those.
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excuse my ignorance but how do you post projects and pictures??
You can simply drag & drop images from your computer into the comment reply box and they’ll be uploaded and show up in your comment.
ok thank you so much
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go to ‘REPLY’ at bottom, drag file of picture from computer (never could figure out how to get it off my phone so i loaded on computer file), and sit back and wait for it to load. Your picture when fully loaded will show up in right read screen and say 100%
now push REPLY (or whatever the final choice is) Took me a while to figure it out but I got it
you’ve just posted your first pictures
As I remember, your first time they limit you to 3 pictures
If you look back on it and want to change something just click on the little pencil at the bottom (That’s what I just did now to add this)
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Wow that looks amazing. I just made my first bowl and I get the bowl bit marks on the bottom. How do you set yours up to fix that? Or any suggestions? I have a X50JM.
Thank you
Thanks for the compliment, first of all I have my spindle trammed in to very near perfect so I don’t get lines from the tool, I used a 1/2" 2 flute up cut endmill to machine the pockets to final depth leaving 3/8" on all sides to remove with the bowl bit. I use the bowl bit for the profile cut so it just follows the profile and going down in the Z about .200 per pass. My bowl bit is 3/4" dia with a small part in the center that is flat so it is not a complete radius. I literally did not have to sand anything, only a little scotchbrite and it is ready for finish.
Good luck on your projects.
Pat
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My buddy got in a bad bike accident… i saw him in a condition i wouldn’t wish on my enemies. But he got out of it without any broken bones… he’s also a superman fan
Made this for him to help with left brain/ right brain connection following his tbi and invited him to paint it instead of the coloring books for 8 year olds his wife gave him
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A topographic 3D relief of Snowdon (A mountain in Wales).
Software Used:
- Modelling: Blender3D and GIS Addon: BlenderGIS Addon - Blender
- Toolpaths: VCarve
Machining: Amana 1/32 Tapered Ball Nose. 170 IPM, 24k (probably way too much), 10% stepover
Material: American Walnut
Dimensions: 230mm x 165mm x 30 mm
Even Better If:
- I wanted to show the paths to get up Snowdon. To do this I modelled the paths as 0.5mm diameter tubes. Whilst they technically worked, they look too much like a worm casts
What Worked Well:
- The detail on the profile worked well with grain of the walnut (fluke)
- Lakes and various puddles were modelled by outlining the regions and flattening the surface and then pulling the surface down 1mm
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First 2-sided, 3D work totally of my design. It’s a tulip poplar leaf ring dish. It’s 1/4 thick, slightly convex; the corners are 3/4 high at their peaks. Veins are v-carved into the surface following the concave surface. Have some tooling updates to make to improve precision if I plan to make a bunch of them, but not a bad first go.
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Here is a fun project I completed.
The file is on etsy, finished size is 12 X 12 X 2.
Used a 1/4 ballnose for roughing about 2 hrs.
Used a 1/8 tapered ballnose for finish psss about 5 hrs.
Cleanup and painting about 8 hrs.
Mike
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Who doesn’t love minions?! Banana!
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Love the slippers…oh and the topo map looks great too!
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Hey William,
I envy you 
Did you make it?
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