Native American carved in cedar

Post by **arthur ammons** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:48 pm

Post by **Savannahdan** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 8:40 pm

Very, very nice. I like the way that the rings radiate out and complement the carving.

Post by **scottp55** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 8:46 pm

Wonderful piece Arthur!!
How did you get the vector boundary? Scan/trace and scan?
Is that a pocket cut first to level?
Brought a smile to my face

Thanks,
scott

Post by **armbrusterco** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 2:06 am

Fabulous use of the grain to accentuate the artwork, Arthur.

Post by **mikeacg** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:55 pm

Very impressive use of the material! Thanks for sharing!

Mike

Post by **Dustmite** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:52 pm

Dang! That grain really sets it off! Love it...

Post by **scottart** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:59 am

Yes, great use of the wood. inspiring..

Post by **dealguy11** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:34 pm

Amazing piece! Thanks for sharing!

Post by **arthur ammons** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 8:36 pm

scottp55 wrote:Wonderful piece Arthur!!
How did you get the vector boundary? Scan/trace and scan?
Is that a pocket cut first to level?
Brought a smile to my face
Thanks,
scott

Hi, Scott.

I took a picture of it with my Iphone and then put in to photoshop. Then I used lasso tool to get the edges around and made a copy of it. Then I used inside glow effect and made it black for the outline of it.

It looked like this after I finished with it in photoshop. Then it was simple import it and biggest task of aligning it with the machine and the file on the computer. Which I had to let the machine make a few close air passes to line it up.

I used a regular pencil to outline the wood.

Post by **arthur ammons** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 8:39 pm

Thanks, all of you! Making a new one of an eagle in the wood.

Post by **scottp55** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:04 pm

Thanks for the explanation Arthur:)
Excellent work and application!!
scott

Post by **arthur ammons** » Sun Nov 08, 2015 4:38 pm

scottp55 wrote:Thanks for the explanation Arthur:)
Excellent work and application!!
scott

I didn't mention this before. But you have to measure specific points on the wood and points on the black outline in aspire to get the right size. I choose prominent spots that would be easier to measure so I can make it as close to the original size as possible.

And thanks!

Post by **wiloneil** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:03 pm

Arthur, if you don't mind my asking, how long did it take for the CNC machine to do the carving, it really is beautiful.

Post by **Ring Shake** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 1:32 am

Excellent work. I just surfaced a 75 pound slab of yellow birch burl using similar techniques. My photo had the tape measure on it.
I drew a line across it to help position/orient it on the CNC bed.

Post by **arthur ammons** » Sun Feb 07, 2016 3:39 pm

Ring Shake wrote:Excellent work. I just surfaced a 75 pound slab of yellow birch burl using similar techniques. My photo had the tape measure on it.
I drew a line across it to help position/orient it on the CNC bed.

Nice!

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